Ron, if remove FreeBSD's dependence on BIOS calls. can we move pci bus routine from Linux Kernel to them?
Is any license problem with that? YH On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 09:23:27 -0800, yhlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I plan to put the ADLO and BOCHS into the Etherboot and just like FILO > in the Etherboot. SO I don't need to handle elf header stuff.... > > Is it a good way? > > YH > > > On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 09:18:08 -0800, yhlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So you mean We should make the ADLO to understand the linuxbios table > > like Etherboot and FILO? > > > > YH > > > > > > On 08 Mar 2005 23:17:04 -0700, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederman@lnxi.com> > > wrote: > > > yhlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > 1. LinuxBIOS need to pass the position pirq table to loader.s --- put > > > > that in CMOS or loader.s search that in RAM "PIR" > > > > 2. LinuxBIOS need to pass the entries in e820 at 1MB to loader.s, or > > > > put that in CMOS in LinuxBIOS stage. ---- what standard need to put > > > > this in CMOS... > > > > 3. VGA BIOS already be copied by LinuxBIOS, but should still need let > > > > ADLO know the dev and fun of that .....--- put that in CMOS? > > > > 4. mptable is alredy in the RAM. > > > > > > > > Any suggestion.... about 1 and 2. > > > > > > We already do. Although getting the irq routing information into the > > > device > > > tree and the linuxbios table is something I have on the todo list. > > > > > > The ADLO loader needs to handle the conversion from the format linuxbios > > > uses > > > and whatever bochs bios uses. Currently the loader is terribly primitive. > > > > > > Eric > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
