Hello from Gregg C Levine normally with Jedi Knight Computers
I must say I am impressed. I shall examine these downloaded files from
Eric's site, via my distribution of Linux, and try them out there.
Further information on my progress will be reported here. And if it
looks acceptable on my web site.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 2:40 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: bios command line?
>
>
> I am merging in Eric's work with considerable re-organization so it
> will work with keyboards if/when support for them is added.
>
> Ty
>
> On 16 Mar, Eric Seppanen wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 12:20:46PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> I keep finding that I really need to be able to use
> linuxbios to choose
> >> a kernel image and enter a kernel command line. This is a basic
> >> feature of nearly every kernel loader such a lilo and syslinux.
> >>
> >> Using kernels to load kernels definately has its place
> but is too space
> >> intensive for what I am doing.
> >>
> >> I think I heard that someone had some sort of serial
> console input
> >> code. Is this available? Is it useful? ...or should I
> start from
> >> scratch?
> >
> > I've done it, though my code is pretty far forked from
> linuxbios-cvs. The
> > code should be really easy to tear out, though. Grab a
> tarball from
> > http://www.reric.net/linux/linuxbios/
> > and take a look at these bits of code to see if it'll
> work for you:
> >
> > debug.c, especially debug_menu() and the kparam_* functions
> > printk.c, getline() stub
> > serial.c, serial_getline(), which uses serial_getchar() and
> > serial_printchar() to actually move chars to/from the port.
> >
> > I'm not sure what mechanism printk uses in cvs to print
> chars to the
> > serial port, but you'll probably want to make printk and
> the input-echo
> > use the same mechanism.
> >
> > And of course I should mention that this is a wonderful
> vehicle for
> > fiddling with chipset or PCI registers, changing kernel
> parameters,
> > testing memory or other hardware, adding quick-and-dirty
> debug tests...
> >
> > Eric
>
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