Questions on LinuxBIOS and OpenFirmware

2007-08-24 Thread Kein Yuan
Deal list, When reading about works on web page I was a little bit confused about OLPC's BIOS solution. Seems at the very first stage OLPC are using Insyde BIOS, then move to LinuxBIOS, then move to OFW. My questions is: does OFW is the only thing that act as BIOS? Or OLPC is using

Re: Questions on LinuxBIOS and OpenFirmware

2007-08-24 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Aug 24, 2007, at 5:28 AM, Kein Yuan wrote: Seems at the very first stage OLPC are using Insyde BIOS, then move to LinuxBIOS, then move to OFW. My questions is: does OFW is the only thing that act as BIOS? Or OLPC is using LinuxBIOS as BIOS and use OFW as BIOS payload to do extra

Re: Questions on LinuxBIOS and OpenFirmware

2007-08-24 Thread Kein Yuan
So in short words, OLPC is using LinuxBIOS to do low level HW init, then transfer control to OFW, which also acting as boot loader to load Linux OS, right? Thanks a lot, Kein On 8/24/07, Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 24, 2007, at 5:28 AM, Kein Yuan wrote: Seems at the very

Re: Questions on LinuxBIOS and OpenFirmware

2007-08-24 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Aug 24, 2007, at 7:25 AM, Kein Yuan wrote: So in short words, OLPC is using LinuxBIOS to do low level HW init, then transfer control to OFW, which also acting as boot loader to load Linux OS, right? Correct. -- Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://radian.org

Re: accessibilities first tests - many questions

2007-08-24 Thread Guylhem Aznar
Hello On 8/20/07, Jordan Crouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It'd be great if this could be included. Better yet would be to allow specifying the raw register value, of course with an -EINVAL if bits unrelated to swizzle and backlight are set. Again - can I ask why? The sysfs/ interface

Re: DejaVu fonts (Was: Ethiopean)

2007-08-24 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Sergey Udaltsov wrote: Would you try the Ethiopian XIM in en_US locale (replacing Compose file)? I'm afraid I'm totally ignorant of the subject. How is the Xlib compose handling supposed to work in applications? Would it also work in Write.activity? By the way, the am_ET.UTF-8 locale

Re: Questions on LinuxBIOS and OpenFirmware

2007-08-24 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, On Aug 24, 2007, at 7:25 AM, Kein Yuan wrote: So in short words, OLPC is using LinuxBIOS to do low level HW init, then transfer control to OFW, which also acting as boot loader to load Linux OS, right? Correct. Actually, I think Mitch replaced the LinuxBIOS init code

Re: Questions on LinuxBIOS and OpenFirmware

2007-08-24 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 24/08/07 10:38 -0400, Chris Ball wrote: Hi, On Aug 24, 2007, at 7:25 AM, Kein Yuan wrote: So in short words, OLPC is using LinuxBIOS to do low level HW init, then transfer control to OFW, which also acting as boot loader to load Linux OS, right? Correct.

Re: accessibilities first tests - many questions

2007-08-24 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 24/08/07 15:47 +0200, Guylhem Aznar wrote: Hello On 8/20/07, Jordan Crouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It'd be great if this could be included. Better yet would be to allow specifying the raw register value, of course with an -EINVAL if bits unrelated to swizzle and backlight are set.

Re: Questions on LinuxBIOS and OpenFirmware

2007-08-24 Thread Mitch Bradley
Ivan Krstić wrote: On Aug 24, 2007, at 7:25 AM, Kein Yuan wrote: So in short words, OLPC is using LinuxBIOS to do low level HW init, then transfer control to OFW, which also acting as boot loader to load Linux OS, right? Correct. Sorry, not correct. LinuxBIOS is not

Re: DejaVu fonts (Was: Ethiopean)

2007-08-24 Thread Jim Gettys
Also note that we need Pango 1.18 (just released) for Ethiopian to work; J5 says this is now in our builds. On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 10:01 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: Sergey Udaltsov wrote: Would you try the Ethiopian XIM in en_US locale (replacing Compose file)? I'm afraid I'm totally

Re: Board Revision

2007-08-24 Thread John Watlington
The change list from Quanta: 1. Reserved ESD Protected IC for Speaker Left/Right (U67,U68) Channel and PS/2 interface (U66). – EC 3B00,3B01 (Page 12,13) 2. Connect U39 charger IC pin 124 to REF5V for supplier recommend for unused pin. – EC 3B02 (Page 18) 3. Change R345/360Ohm

Re: DejaVu fonts (Was: Ethiopean)

2007-08-24 Thread Jim Gettys
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 22:26 +0100, Sergey Udaltsov wrote: Is it in the latest _stable_ build? Should I wait for the new one? Or should I rather risk installing today's devel build? No, current builds.. Eg. 556, which I installed on 3 systems (B3, B4, and CTest) this afternoon.