On Wednesday 25 April 2007 18:41, Alex Roman wrote:
> > For GRUB 2 you will need to install ruby as well. What I actually
> > meant with a good development environment is setting up qemu or so.
> > Or when you want to test things on real hardware you can better use
> > networking instead of messin
On Monday 23 April 2007 02:01, adrian15 wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > My name is Alex Roman and I have been selected as a Summer of Code
> > student for the GRUB2 project. I will be adding CD-ROM booting
> > functionality to GRUB2.
>
> Welcome! Cdrom booting funcionality for grub2 is a good piece
On Wednesday 25 April 2007 06:49, Alex Roman wrote:
> Right now I'm pondering whether it is worth implementing a BIOS calls
> CDROM boot support, or whether I should just go right ahead and do it
> all with the ATA controller.
It is definitely worth doing. When BIOS works gracefully, you do not ha
On 25/04/07, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
Yeah, for example grub_be_to_cpu32 to convert a 32 bits BE integer to
the host format. You can find all macros in include/grub/types.h.
Cool, sounds good.
...
Right, but it is only used on the PC AFAIK. For example, Open
Firmware
"Alex Roman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi,
> On 25/04/07, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> "Alex Roman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> Please don't top quote, it is confusing ;-).
> GMail is doing it... Sorry :(
np, you seem to have fixed it :-)
[...]
>> If you a
On 25/04/07, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Alex Roman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi Alex,
Please don't top quote, it is confusing ;-).
GMail is doing it... Sorry :(
> Interesting piece of code... Yet another example of showing how to
> implement an ATA/IDE controller driver :)
"Alex Roman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi Alex,
Please don't top quote, it is confusing ;-).
> Interesting piece of code... Yet another example of showing how to
> implement an ATA/IDE controller driver :)
Yeah.
btw, do you know http://www.osdever.net?
If you are looking for even more infor
Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * Devils-Hawk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070424 22:06]:
>> You should probably have a look at http://www.linuxbios.org/FILO maybe
>> you can salvage something. FILO supports booting from ElTorito bootable
>> CD media, uses 32-bit mode, and it is free of bios
Devils-Hawk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You should probably have a look at http://www.linuxbios.org/FILO maybe
> you can salvage something. FILO supports booting from ElTorito bootable
> CD media, uses 32-bit mode, and it is free of bios calls. Unfortunately
> its x86 only, although some work ha
"Alex Roman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi Alex,
> My name is Alex Roman and I have been selected as a Summer of Code
> student for the GRUB2 project. I thought I'd introduce myself and my
> project. I am a second year student at the University of Waterloo
> (just finished 2A, first term of seco
Alex Roman wrote:
> Interesting piece of code... Yet another example of showing how to
> implement an ATA/IDE controller driver :)
>
> Right now I'm pondering whether it is worth implementing a BIOS calls
> CDROM boot support, or whether I should just go right ahead and do it
> all with the ATA co
I think it's safe to say that IDE is pretty much the same
anywhere on PowerPC there is no dedicated PIO address space, so
the IDE registers are memory mapped someplace (so don't forget to
eieio) (read PCI BARs or interpret device tree?).
Andrei Evgenievich Warkentin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ce
Interesting piece of code... Yet another example of showing how to
implement an ATA/IDE controller driver :)
Right now I'm pondering whether it is worth implementing a BIOS calls
CDROM boot support, or whether I should just go right ahead and do it
all with the ATA controller.
I'm not sure how I
* Devils-Hawk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070424 22:06]:
> You should probably have a look at http://www.linuxbios.org/FILO maybe
> you can salvage something. FILO supports booting from ElTorito bootable
> CD media, uses 32-bit mode, and it is free of bios calls. Unfortunately
> its x86 only, although som
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You should probably have a look at http://www.linuxbios.org/FILO maybe
you can salvage something. FILO supports booting from ElTorito bootable
CD media, uses 32-bit mode, and it is free of bios calls. Unfortunately
its x86 only, although some work ha
Hello list,
My name is Alex Roman and I have been selected as a Summer of Code
student for the GRUB2 project. I will be adding CD-ROM booting functionality to
GRUB2.
Welcome! Cdrom booting funcionality for grub2 is a good piece of news.
The first stage of the project will attempt to use BIOS ca
Hello list,
My name is Alex Roman and I have been selected as a Summer of Code
student for the GRUB2 project. I thought I'd introduce myself and my
project. I am a second year student at the University of Waterloo
(just finished 2A, first term of second year). I have experience
developing in low-
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