Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-03 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: so, peter, you want to accumulate the Glossary for us :-) Sure. It's the least I could do. What would be required of me? I just downloaded a snapshot (the last time I tried cvs it didn't work), so I'll have a look at the code (I'm not good at C or x86

Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-03 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Peter Karlsson wrote: -- I2C - Inter-Integrated-Circuit, a bidirectional 2-wire bus for efficient inter-IC control. See 'http://www.esacademy.com/faq/i2c/index.htm' for more info. this is fine. And as someone else mentioned that

Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-02 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Peter Stuge wrote: Exactly right. But with the right flash memory on the mainboard you can use the operating system (Linux) as payload directly. Ok, thanks. I've seen this discussed on this list; dependent on size of flash mem. I'm not sure I agree that the bar must be

Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-02 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Peter Karlsson wrote: Ok, thanks again for educating me! so, peter, you want to accumulate the Glossary for us :-) ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-02 Thread Richard Smith
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 08:05:06 -0700 (MST), Ronald G. Minnich rminnich@lanl.gov wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Peter Karlsson wrote: Ok, thanks again for educating me! so, peter, you want to accumulate the Glossary for us :-) A tehnical glossary would be nice but one thing we _really_ need

Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-02 Thread Justin C. Darby
Richard Smith wrote: A tehnical glossary would be nice but one thing we _really_ need is a listing of all config options and what they do. This was (and still is) one of the largest hurdles for me. And its one of the things that Google won't find much on. I compiled part of a list for V1 and

Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-02 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050302 16:28]: A tehnical glossary would be nice but one thing we _really_ need is a listing of all config options and what they do. This was (and still is) one of the largest hurdles for me. And its one of the things that Google won't find much on.

Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-02 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Justin C. Darby [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050302 16:34]: If someone can point me in the right direction (in the source, I'd guess) to find all of the configuration options without descriptions I can setup a page dedicated to explaining them one at a time. freebios2/src/config/Options.lb

Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-02 Thread Richard Smith
listing of all config options and what they do. This was (and still is) one of the largest hurdles for me. And its one of the things that Google won't find much on. Should this be generated automatically out of Options.lb? There is a lot of description in that file already. Thats a

Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-02 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Justin C. Darby wrote: If someone can point me in the right direction (in the source, I'd guess) to find all of the configuration options without descriptions I can setup a page dedicated to explaining them one at a time. src/config/Options.lb What's nice is the

Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-02 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Richard Smith wrote: Thats a good idea. What about adding a description section where this info is filled out. Then the config tool would generate some sort of text file in the target directory describing all the options that are set. Makefile.settings ron

Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-02 Thread Justin C. Darby
Ronald G. Minnich wrote: src/config/Options.lb What's nice is the format greg watson worked up is amenable to processing to produce html. I think this ought to be easy to autmoate. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org

Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-02 Thread Li-Ta Lo
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 08:41, Stefan Reinauer wrote: * Justin C. Darby [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050302 16:34]: If someone can point me in the right direction (in the source, I'd guess) to find all of the configuration options without descriptions I can setup a page dedicated to explaining them

Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-01 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Anton Borisov wrote: Payload is file that holds, for instance, LAN ROM, i.e. software responsible for remoting loading from server. It's just an example. There are FAQs (try to google) which explain much of your questions. LinuxBIOS (initialises hardware) - payload

Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-01 Thread Peter Stuge
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 12:44:23PM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote: LinuxBIOS (initialises hardware) - payload (etherboot,OpenBIOS, FILO etc.) (- operating system)? Exactly right. But with the right flash memory on the mainboard you can use the operating system (Linux) as payload directly. Ok,

Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-01 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Peter Karlsson wrote: To get more people interested in linuxbios one has to lower the bars, and technical jargon is a major blocker (at least for me). And yes, I do know what i2c is, and I think I know what spd is (ram speed?) but vid did does not ring a bell. For

Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-01 Thread Li-Ta Lo
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 08:52, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Peter Karlsson wrote: To get more people interested in linuxbios one has to lower the bars, and technical jargon is a major blocker (at least for me). And yes, I do know what i2c is, and I think I know what spd

Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-01 Thread Li-Ta Lo
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 10:32, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Li-Ta Lo wrote: Probably we should seriously consider writing the Users Manual and Programmer's Manual as I mentioned before? yes, it has to be done. ron Ron, Do I have to right to distribute my FREENIX '05

Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-01 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Li-Ta Lo wrote: Do I have to right to distribute my FREENIX '05 paper? If I can, should I put it on the wiki? yes. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-01 Thread Li-Ta Lo
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 10:45, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Li-Ta Lo wrote: Do I have to right to distribute my FREENIX '05 paper? If I can, should I put it on the wiki? yes. even the copyright is assigned to USENIX.org? Ollie ron

Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-01 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Li-Ta Lo wrote: even the copyright is assigned to USENIX.org? yes, AFAIK you can still post it. I post all my usenix pappers. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org