[SeaBIOS] Check if Wikipedia is correct and not outdated

2020-03-06 Thread Fred .Flintstone
Hi Please check if Wikipedia is correct and not outdated. The SeaBIOS article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaBIOS The BIOS comparison which includes SeaBIOS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS#Vendors_and_products Thanks! ___ SeaBIOS mailing list

[SeaBIOS] Re: Merge the SLIC patch

2020-02-13 Thread Fred .Flintstone
Ok, thanks. On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 3:31 PM Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 03:01:21PM +0100, Fred .Flintstone wrote: > > But what about when you run SeaBIOS on a real machine instead of in a > > virtual machine? > > acpi t

[SeaBIOS] Re: Merge the SLIC patch

2020-02-13 Thread Fred .Flintstone
But what about when you run SeaBIOS on a real machine instead of in a virtual machine? On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 2:59 PM Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 10:41:57AM +0100, Fred .Flintstone wrote: > > There is a patch for ACPI Table Extraction / SeaBIOS SLIC

[SeaBIOS] Is Wikipedia correct?

2020-02-13 Thread Fred .Flintstone
Since there are exports on this mailing lists on SeaBIOS and BIOS in general, please check if Wikipedia is correct, if any information is wrong or outdated or missing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaBIOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS#Vendors_and_products

[SeaBIOS] Merge the SLIC patch

2020-02-13 Thread Fred .Flintstone
There is a patch for ACPI Table Extraction / SeaBIOS SLIC Integration. https://github.com/ghuntley/seaslic Why isn't the SLIC patch merged into upstreams SeaBIOS? ___ SeaBIOS mailing list -- seabios@seabios.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH] vgasrc: add HDTV resolutions (1280x768, 1280x720, 1920x1080)

2013-11-30 Thread Fred .
Well now would be a good time for someone to write that 4K patch while this is being done anyway. Dell is now launching their new Ultrasharp UP2414Q which is a 24 screen with 4K resolution. It will feature 3 840 x 2 160 resolution. While preparing for that, take a look at 8K too.

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH] vgasrc: add HDTV resolutions (1280x768, 1280x720, 1920x1080)

2013-11-29 Thread Fred .
1920 × 1200 is a pretty common resolution. On computers, not on TVs. Also, now there is UHD TV resolutions. The 4K resolutions. Like 3840 × 2160 and 4096 × 2160. On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Kevin O'Connor ke...@koconnor.net wrote: On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 11:12:32PM +0400, Michael

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH v3 0/3] usb: add xhci support

2013-09-24 Thread Fred .
Many motherboards come with 64 megabit (8 megabyte) firmware chips. So it should be able to handle more than just 128k, preferably more than 256k too. On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:19:39AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH] build: explicitly set rom size

2013-09-24 Thread Fred .
Maybe QEMU live migration could be improved to handle ROM changing size? On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Kevin O'Connor ke...@koconnor.net wrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:12:36AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: Replace the automatic rom sizing with an explicit kconfig option. ROM changing

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH] acpi: hide 64-bit PCI hole for Windows XP

2013-08-05 Thread Fred .
Maybe rename Windows 2001, 2006, and 2009 to their real names? Or use their NT kernel name instead, like NT 6.1, NT 6.2, etc. Or add a comment in the source code like: “Windows 2009” /* Windows 7 */ || Windows 2012 /* Windows Server 2012 */ || On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 9:11 PM, Paolo Bonzini

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH] Support custom boot menu prompt and custom boot menu key.

2013-08-02 Thread Fred .
Can the message have some color codes? \nPress whiteF12/white for boot menu.\n\n So that it is possible to brighten/darken/highlight/emphasize certain parts of text strings. Also with the boot being so fast, it is easy to miss the window of press. I hope it is possible to hold down the F12 key

Re: [SeaBIOS] Open Firmware path on boot selection screen.

2013-08-01 Thread Fred .
Wow, that is a really cool feature! :) On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Gerd Hoffmann kra...@redhat.com wrote: On 07/31/13 14:18, Weinz Christian wrote: Hello, I suggest adding the Open Firmware paths for devices SeaBIOS can boot from (example: /pci@i0cf8/usb@12,2/usb-*@4) to the boot

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH] [wip] add xhci support

2013-06-11 Thread Fred .
Release early, release often. Push to git head! On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Gerd Hoffmann kra...@redhat.com wrote: On 06/09/13 04:31, Kevin O'Connor wrote: On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 02:16:10PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: Very first revision doing something useful. Initializes xhci

Re: [SeaBIOS] Running privilege code on hidden O.S.

2013-06-07 Thread Fred .
6, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Fred . eldman...@gmail.com wrote: I am curious as to why you would want to do such a thing... On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Jerry Backer bataill...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, I am using seaBIOS with QEMU and am attempting to hide a processor core (on an smp system) from

Re: [SeaBIOS] Running privilege code on hidden O.S.

2013-06-06 Thread Fred .
I am curious as to why you would want to do such a thing... On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Jerry Backer bataill...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am using seaBIOS with QEMU and am attempting to hide a processor core (on an smp system) from the O.S. and then load a dedicated code on that core

Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] What's the impact of enlarging IDE_TIMEOUT ?

2013-06-01 Thread Fred .
Sounds like something that should be commented in the source code. IDE_TIMEOUT = 32; // 30 seconds per ATA specification +2 seconds thrown in for safety On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Kevin O'Connor ke...@koconnor.net wrote: On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 03:18:56AM +, Gonglei (Arei) wrote:

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH RFC 0/3] seabios: move acpi table formatting out of bios

2013-04-25 Thread Fred .
With ACPI moved out of SeaBIOS to QEMU, how will ACPI work when using SeaBIOS without QEMU? Like if using SeaBIOS with Boch, KVM or Coreboot? On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com wrote: Untested yet, but I thought I'd share the BIOS bits so we can agree on

Re: [SeaBIOS] [RFC][PATCH 0/2] Embedded Controller chip emulation

2013-04-17 Thread Fred .
HECI ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_Embedded_Controller_Interface On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:32 AM, li guang lig.f...@cn.fujitsu.com wrote: Embedded Controller chip could commonly be found at platforms for laptop, it generally does power management, keyboard and mouse simulation, ACPI

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH] src/Kconfig: Add note that boot interface is needed

2013-03-19 Thread Fred .
If SeaBIOS is useless without this, then maybe the option to disable it should be removed? On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Paul Menzel paulepan...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:36:15 +0100 Without the boot interface , GRUB 2 (package grub-pc 1.99-7 from Debian

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH] src/Kconfig: Spell »Option ROMs« uniformly as in Wikipedia [1]

2013-03-18 Thread Fred .
Wikipedia titles start with a capital letter, hence it is Option ROM but in the article, most references are option ROM and probably all references should be option ROM. option being lowercase because it is an English word, and ROM being uppercase because it is an acronym. On Mon, Mar 18, 2013

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Simultaneous multi-platform support

2013-02-14 Thread Fred .
I oppose the name runningOnXen() ! I propose the name running_on_Xen() ___ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios

Re: [SeaBIOS] [RFC PATCH] VGA BIOS init fails if first mode used is graphical

2013-02-13 Thread Fred .
Can SeaBIOS init to a high resolution video mode such as 1920x1200? On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Kevin O'Connor ke...@koconnor.net wrote: On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 03:19:19PM +, David Woodhouse wrote: On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 15:06 +, David Woodhouse wrote: When booting with

Re: [SeaBIOS] [RFC PATCH] VGA BIOS init fails if first mode used is graphical

2013-02-13 Thread Fred .
as something from 1960 or 1970. Maybe 132*60 instead of 40*25 or 80*25 rows/columns of text? On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:10 AM, David Woodhouse dw...@infradead.orgwrote: On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 10:44 +0100, Fred . wrote: Can SeaBIOS init to a high resolution video mode such as 1920x1200? I'm

Re: [SeaBIOS] [RFC PATCH] VGA BIOS init fails if first mode used is graphical

2013-02-13 Thread Fred .
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 5:15 PM, David Woodhouse dw...@infradead.orgwrote: What user experience do you actually expect to achieve, from the changes that you're suggesting? Bootloaders like Grub these days will already use graphical modes. The SeaBIOS splash screen can also be graphical, and

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH 3/6] Add runningOnQEMU() and runningOnXEN() ror runtime platform detection.

2013-02-11 Thread Fred .
, 2013 at 08:42:31PM +0100, Fred . wrote: runningOnXEN() It is Xen not XEN. It is not capitalized. I've updated the Kconfig comments in my tree. Also, hypercall_xen_version() has underscore, but runningOnXEN() has camelcase. Maybe runningOnXEN() should be named running_on_Xen

Re: [SeaBIOS] [RFC PATCH] VGA BIOS init fails if first mode used is graphical

2013-02-08 Thread Fred .
It would be nice with native resolution video mode. Such as 1920x1200. On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 4:06 PM, David Woodhouse dw...@infradead.org wrote: When booting with OVMF+CSM, the first video mode that we ask for is mode 0x143. This doesn't seem to work; the qemu display window doesn't change

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH 2/5] Introduce framework for detecting what platform SeaBIOS is running on.

2013-02-08 Thread Fred .
I see functions named coreboot_preinit() with underscore. Then I see functions named runningOnCoreboot() with camelcase. This is inconsistent naming. Shouldn't you be sticking to some coding convention or naming guideline? On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Fred . eldman...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH 2/5] Introduce framework for detecting what platform SeaBIOS is running on.

2013-02-08 Thread Fred .
Maybe would be nice with a: int get_platform(); 0 = QEMU 1 = Xen 2 = Coreboot 3 = CSM Then you have one get_platform() function, instead of four separate startedOnQEMU(), startedOnCoreboot, startedOnCSM, etc functions. On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 6:07 AM, Kevin O'Connor ke...@koconnor.net wrote:

Re: [SeaBIOS] Next release

2013-01-07 Thread Fred .
Boot sector write protection. Prevent modify boot sector, master boot record, partition tables. Less and less computers come with optical disk drivers to run read-only Live distributions from. Would be nice with option to set hard disk drive read-only. So you can use a HDD or USB as a

[SeaBIOS] Boot sector protection

2013-01-03 Thread Fred .
Add option to enable boot sector protection to prevent writes to the boot sector and MBR of a hard disk. In order to prevent boot sector viruses and corruption of partition tables. ___ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org

[SeaBIOS] Access disk in read-only mode

2013-01-03 Thread Fred .
Before you could boot a OS from a LiveCD and have it secure because CD is read-only and non-writable. Now less and less machines comes with optical drives. It would be nice with a setting to boot disks or USB as read-only so the OS can not write to the disk.

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH v2 0/9] q35 seabios support

2012-10-09 Thread Fred .
Maybe it could be modified to add support for G31 and G33 too? Or maybe for P35? On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Jason Baron jba...@redhat.com wrote: Hi, Seabios bits for q35 support, I'm posting the qemu changes separately. The patches require '-M pc_q35' and -L 'seabios dir with q35

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH v2 0/9] q35 seabios support

2012-10-09 Thread Fred .
No. On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Paolo Bonzini pbonz...@redhat.com wrote: Il 09/10/2012 12:04, Fred . ha scritto: Maybe it could be modified to add support for G31 and G33 too? Or maybe for P35? Do you have patches for QEMU that implement the host-side support? Paolo

[SeaBIOS] FirmwareTestSuiteLive

2012-09-19 Thread Fred .
Use FirmwareTestSuiteLive to check how well SeaBIOS behaves. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareEnablementTeam/Documentation/FirmwareTestSuiteLive https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Reference/fwts ___ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org

Re: [SeaBIOS] Bootorder file question regarding USB hubs/devices

2012-09-02 Thread Fred .
The format doesn't look very human friendly. It looks rather cryptic. On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Kevin O'Connor ke...@koconnor.net wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:28:44AM -0500, Dave Frodin wrote: Previously (before fetching the latest seabios/master) our bootorder file looked like

Re: [SeaBIOS] DC Mapping

2012-08-31 Thread Fred .
Can SeaBIOS output colored text? It would be good to highlight keys. such as Press F12 for menu then highlight F12. Other BIOS such as Award and AMI can use colors in text. Example Press F12 for boot menu, then F12 is in highlighted color. On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Christian Gmeiner

Re: [SeaBIOS] [ANNOUNCE] SeaBIOS 1.7.1

2012-08-31 Thread Fred .
Great to see a new release out! :) Now lets merge some new stuff! :D On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Kevin O'Connor ke...@koconnor.net wrote: The 1.7.1 version of SeaBIOS has now been released. For more information on the release, please see: http://seabios.org/Releases New in this

[SeaBIOS] [CCE 4177-2] The XD/NX processor feature should be enabled or disabled as appropriate in the BIOS

2012-08-22 Thread Fred .
Add setting to enable/disable XD/NX-bit for security. http://nvd.nist.gov/scap/content/stylesheet/scap-rhel5-document.htm ___ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH] tsc: use kvmclock for calibration

2012-08-13 Thread Fred .
Add a comment about it in the source code. -#define PM_TIMER_FREQUENCY 3579545 +#define PM_TIMER_FREQUENCY 3579545 // 3.579545 MHz clock required by ACPI spec. On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Gleb Natapov g...@redhat.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:37:11PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:

Re: [SeaBIOS] How much RAM is required?

2012-08-10 Thread Fred .
Some machines also have broken memory modules. So some computers have 0 byte RAM in that case. :D On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Markus Armbruster arm...@redhat.com wrote: Frediano Ziglio frediano.zig...@citrix.com writes: On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 16:24 +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: Fred . wrote

Re: [SeaBIOS] How much RAM is required?

2012-08-09 Thread Fred .
But QEMU may use other firmware/payload than SeaBIOS which might require less than 1 MB of RAM. On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Markus Armbruster arm...@redhat.com wrote: Kevin O'Connor ke...@koconnor.net writes: On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 01:50:13PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote: Watch this:

Re: [SeaBIOS] How much RAM is required?

2012-08-09 Thread Fred .
Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Fred . wrote: But QEMU may use other firmware/payload than SeaBIOS which might require less than 1 MB of RAM. Really? Are you working on one? //Peter ___ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org http

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH] tsc: use kvmclock for calibration

2012-08-09 Thread Fred .
It should be kHz not khz. -msr, (u32)khz / 1000); +msr, (u32)kHz / 1000); On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Avi Kivity a...@redhat.com wrote: On 08/09/2012 02:57 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: Use kvmclock for tsc calibration when running on kvm. Without this the tsc

Re: [SeaBIOS] [Seabois] BSOD during start of Win2003 installation

2012-08-06 Thread Fred .
I think Windows 2003 uses a more modern code base than Windows XP. 2003 is more similar to XP 64-bit. On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Gerd Hoffmann kra...@redhat.com wrote: On 07/24/12 19:51, Alexey Korolev wrote: Hi, Win2003 falls to BSOD during early init stage of installer. It is ACPI

Re: [SeaBIOS] SeaBIOS latest updates broken for few weeks

2012-08-05 Thread Fred .
I get the same error. On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Alec Ari neotheu...@ymail.com wrote: Hi, I've been wanting to monitor the source code changes to SeaBIOS via web browser and lately I haven't been able to. For the past few months the occasional unable to allocate memory for pool error

[SeaBIOS] Stance on TPM?

2012-08-04 Thread Fred .
What is SeaBIOS stance on Trusted Platform Module (TPM) ? ___ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios

Re: [SeaBIOS] Stance on TPM?

2012-08-04 Thread Fred .
So such patches would be accepted? If so, then maybe put TPM on the TODO list. On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Fred . wrote: What is SeaBIOS stance on Trusted Platform Module (TPM) ? I guess that there is no stance until you or someone else sends patches

Re: [SeaBIOS] IEEE 1394 interface booting

2012-08-04 Thread Fred .
I see. It should be added to an TODO list though. Or things-you-work-on list. On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Fred . wrote: Add support for booting from IEEE 1394 (aka FireWire) interface. Same here - noone is likely to do this until they want to have

Re: [SeaBIOS] IEEE 1394 interface booting

2012-08-04 Thread Fred .
I see. I propose a things-not-implemented list and add FireWire and TPM to it. Then people can know what is not implemented, and what could be worked on. On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Fred . wrote: I see. It should be added to an TODO list though

Re: [SeaBIOS] [BUG] BSOD on Win2003 Server when 64bit PCI resource is present

2012-07-28 Thread Fred .
Bug Check 0xA5: ACPI_BIOS_ERROR Bug Check 0x2: DEVICE_QUEUE_NOT_BUSY http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff560114%28v=vs.85%29.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff557475%28v=vs.85%29.aspx - at the bottom there is a send comment to Microsoft form

Re: [SeaBIOS] Plan to add POST memory manager (PMM) support

2012-07-15 Thread Fred .
Good luck with it! :) Hope to hear back soon how it goes with it, and patches contributed back upstreams. On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 6:14 AM, Darmawan Salihun darmawan.sali...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Fred, Yes, I need it to test something at work. It's not very urgent at the moment. Regards

Re: [SeaBIOS] Plan to add POST memory manager (PMM) support

2012-07-14 Thread Fred .
Darmawan, will you be implementing PnP support in SeaBIOS? On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Darmawan Salihun darmawan.sali...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/15/12, Kevin O'Connor ke...@koconnor.net wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 02:20:42AM +0700, Darmawan Salihun wrote: First, I made a mistake, I was

Re: [SeaBIOS] Flat Panel Support

2012-07-09 Thread Fred .
I want it to boot 1920x1200 from the start. Then my Linux kernel loads and its still at 1920x1200 without any mode switch and flickering. On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Christian Gmeiner christian.gmei...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I did some more research and came up with the following

[SeaBIOS] Linux-ready Firmware Kit does not work?

2012-06-16 Thread Fred .
http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?59218-DB-BIOS-ACPI-data-collecting A guy collect output of the Linux-ready Firmware Kit and aggregates the results into a online document.

Re: [SeaBIOS] GPT disks in a BIOS world

2012-06-05 Thread Fred .
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 5:21 AM, Kevin O'Connor ke...@koconnor.net wrote: On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 07:11:30PM -0700, Ralf A. Quint wrote: At 03:36 PM 6/4/2012, Kevin O'Connor wrote: On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 03:33:05PM +0200, Fred . wrote: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/8035.html Does SeaBIOS

[SeaBIOS] MBR protection?

2012-06-05 Thread Fred .
Does SeaBIOS support MBR protection like commercial BIOS does? ___ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios

[SeaBIOS] GPT disks in a BIOS world

2012-06-04 Thread Fred .
http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/8035.html Does SeaBIOS support GPT disk labels? Does SeaBIOS understand GPT disk labels? Is it aware of GPT? ___ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios

[SeaBIOS] OS that don't work?

2012-05-26 Thread Fred .
Is there any x86 operating system that SeaBIOS can not boot? Why? ___ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios

Re: [SeaBIOS] Searching for an MS-DOS CD driver

2012-05-22 Thread Fred .
I don't know. http://bootdisk.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSCDEX On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:30 PM, nap cara...@neuf.fr wrote: My old W98SE box has died of a rough handling, but the HDD has survived the crash. For continuity of service and fun, I have chosen to try to use QEMU, with

[SeaBIOS] Website broken

2012-05-11 Thread Fred .
Database error Jump to: navigation, search A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function Revision::fetchFromConds. Database returned error 1: no such column: rev_sha1.

Re: [SeaBIOS] SeaBIOS vs other BIOS?

2012-05-07 Thread Fred .
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Fred . wrote: And in terms of standards compliance? The nature of BIOS is that there isn't a standard to comply with. SMBIOS, PnP BIOS, BIOS Boot Specification, LBA, EDD, APM, PMM, ESCD, MultiProcessor Specification, etc

Re: [SeaBIOS] SeaBIOS vs other BIOS?

2012-05-07 Thread Fred .
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Gleb Natapov g...@redhat.com wrote: On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 10:26:31PM +0200, Fred . wrote: And in terms of standards compliance? I know proprietary BIOS have advantage when it comes to SMBIOS due to the implementation in SeaBIOS lagging behind several versions

[SeaBIOS] SeaBIOS vs other BIOS?

2012-05-06 Thread Fred .
What features and functionality does SeaBIOS have that other BIOS does not? What features and functionality does other BIOS have that is better than what SeaBIOS offers? ___ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org

Re: [SeaBIOS] SeaBIOS vs other BIOS?

2012-05-06 Thread Fred .
How is SeaBIOS working towards the non-technical goals of the project? That said, still curious about a technical comparison. On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: This has very little to do with technical properties, and is much more about politics which obviously

Re: [SeaBIOS] SeaBIOS vs other BIOS?

2012-05-06 Thread Fred .
And in terms of standards compliance? I know proprietary BIOS have advantage when it comes to SMBIOS due to the implementation in SeaBIOS lagging behind several versions. On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Fred . wrote: How is SeaBIOS working towards the non

Re: [SeaBIOS] BEV and bootorder

2012-04-15 Thread Fred .
2012/4/15 Gleb Natapov g...@redhat.com: On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 02:24:05PM +0200, Fred . wrote: Why would anyone want to define some devices as unbootable? Because he does not want to boot from them. Then the partition should not be flagged as a boot partition, and it won't be booted from

Re: [SeaBIOS] BEV and bootorder

2012-04-15 Thread Fred .
Why would anyone want to define some devices as unbootable? On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Gleb Natapov g...@redhat.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:19:31PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 01:30:36PM -0600, Steve Goodrich wrote: I'm working towards a goal of having

Re: [SeaBIOS] [ANNOUNCE] SeaBIOS 1.7.0

2012-04-15 Thread Fred .
Great! :) Nice to see a new release out. Please make a notice about the release on the front page of the seabios website. On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 4:48 AM, Kevin O'Connor ke...@koconnor.net wrote: The 1.7.0 version of SeaBIOS has now been released.  For more information on the release, please

Re: [SeaBIOS] Version bump?

2012-04-08 Thread Fred .
Yes, I was thinking maybe perhaps it was a mistake. On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Gleb Natapov g...@redhat.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 03:37:08AM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: Fred . wrote: Why did the version jump from 0.6.2 to 1.6.3 ? Who cares - it's just a number. Looks like

[SeaBIOS] Version bump?

2012-04-07 Thread Fred .
http://www.seabios.org/Releases Why did the version jump from 0.6.2 to 1.6.3 ? ___ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios

[SeaBIOS] New packages

2012-03-13 Thread Fred .
Please upload new packages on: http://code.coreboot.org/p/seabios/downloads/ ___ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios

Re: [SeaBIOS] Linux-ready Firmware Kit

2012-03-04 Thread Fred .
I haven't actually ran it yet. Just though I'd post it here as I came across it and thought it might be useful for the people here to know about. On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Fred . wrote: Intel provides a Linux-ready Firmware Kit, available on a LiveCD

[SeaBIOS] Linux-ready Firmware Kit

2012-03-03 Thread Fred .
# yum install pmtools # acpidump acpi.dump # acpixtract -l acpi.dump # dmidecode Intel provides a Linux-ready Firmware Kit, available on a LiveCD (79 MB) ( http://linuxfirmwarekit.org/download/firmwarekit-r3.iso ). You only have to launch it, wait 1 or 2 minutes, and there is a summary of the

Re: [SeaBIOS] Booting from USB thumbdrives, older drives boot, newer drives don't.

2012-03-01 Thread Fred .
Maybe run: lsusb -v and compare the output for the difference SanDisk Cruzer USB devices if they're identical or different. On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 12:38 AM, Dave Frodin d...@camp.se-eng.com wrote: I'm a new subscriber to seabios.org so feel free to straighten me out if needed. I've been

Re: [SeaBIOS] Time for a new release?

2012-02-15 Thread Fred .
I'd like to see the ImageMagick-powered bootsplash.sh image generation script merged in. On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Kevin O'Connor ke...@koconnor.net wrote: Given the vgabios changes, I think the next release should be v1.7.0. I agree with the version number.

[SeaBIOS] Time for a new release?

2012-02-09 Thread Fred .
Lots of stuff have been happening lately (namely VGA and VBE related stuff). Also some fixes. Perhaps it is time for a new release soon? ___ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios

Re: [SeaBIOS] ImageMagick-based SeaBIOS logo generation script

2012-02-08 Thread Fred .
Kevin wanted the logo to be generated using scripted free and libre tools. ImageMagick is scripted and free. What else can I use? On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Fred . eldman...@gmail.com wrote: Well, then just execute the file and have it generate the jpg, and then put the jpg file

Re: [SeaBIOS] bootslash.bmp

2012-01-29 Thread Fred .
the included bootsplash image and replace it with their own. Having a prominent logo displayed may also result in SeaBIOS receiving more attention. On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 6:32 AM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Fred . wrote: Add to source tree. bootsplash.bmp I'm afraid that's not likely

[SeaBIOS] bootslash.bmp

2012-01-28 Thread Fred .
Add to source tree. 640x480 bmp. bootsplash.bmp http://www.sendspace.com/file/istb8e ___ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios

Re: [SeaBIOS] Concept logos

2012-01-26 Thread Fred .
: Fred . wrote: I drafted some concept logos. Please provide feedback. Perhaps we could have a vote? http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/3820/seabiosconceptlogos.png Sorry if this sounds harsh, but the only one I like is gear+waves. I think a chip is an ugly and boring shape :\ and the shark

Re: [SeaBIOS] [RFC] acpi: Do not advertise S3

2012-01-15 Thread Fred .
SeaBIOS is used in more than just QEMU. If QEMU does not support S3, then they should patch (or configure) SeaBIOS to not advertise S3 support. On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Gleb Natapov g...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 05:11:27PM -0200, Luiz Capitulino wrote: S3 is broken in

Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] insmod virtio-blk is broken in qemu 1.0

2011-12-19 Thread Fred .
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Daniel P. Berrange berra...@redhat.com wrote: Sigh, we really need to be better about updating SeaBIOS in QEMU before release. We had plenty of time to pull in a newer SeaBIOS before 1.0 that would have fixed this :-( We've had multiple releases now where

Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] insmod virtio-blk is broken in qemu 1.0

2011-12-19 Thread Fred .
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Daniel P. Berrange berra...@redhat.com wrote: Sigh, we really need to be better about updating SeaBIOS in QEMU before release. We had plenty of time to pull in a newer SeaBIOS before 1.0 that would have fixed this :-( We've had multiple releases now where

Re: [SeaBIOS] Request: add support for animated splash screens

2011-12-14 Thread Fred .
Yeah, add this to a unimportant-but-nice-to-have-stuff list or silly-but-cool-ideas list. In TODO file or on wiki or somewhere. On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Fred . wrote: In the Windows splash screen the Windows logo is glowing. It would be nice if SeaBIOS

Re: [SeaBIOS] Analysis of the current state and proposed future path for SeaBIOS.

2011-12-14 Thread Fred .
I do not know low-level programming. So I just come up with ideas that I posted here, and mention stuff that needs to be documented. And say that website needs to be improved. On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Fred . wrote: Analysis of the current state

Re: [SeaBIOS] (no subject)

2011-12-13 Thread Fred .
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Fred . wrote: A BIOS password would add an additional line of defense and protect against booting from a removable device such as CD or USB. Compile out those drivers. But those drivers and functionality are great. I would

Re: [SeaBIOS] (no subject)

2011-12-12 Thread Fred .
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 11:53 PM, David Hendricks dhend...@google.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Fred . eldman...@gmail.com wrote: The ability for SeaBIOS to launch a setup program is already present - it just requires the creation of this setup program.  Several coreboot

Re: [SeaBIOS] (no subject)

2011-12-11 Thread Fred .
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Kevin O'Connor ke...@koconnor.net wrote: On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 07:30:19PM +0100, Fred . wrote: Analyze of the current state and proposed future path for SeaBIOS. == Website == The current SeaBIOS website lacks information and is very basic. SeaBIOS needs

[SeaBIOS] (no subject)

2011-12-10 Thread Fred .
Analyze of the current state and proposed future path for SeaBIOS. == Website == The current SeaBIOS website lacks information and is very basic. SeaBIOS needs a more informative website with documentation and information. == Logo == SeaBIOS have no logo. Award/Phoenix, AMI, Insyde, etc have a

[SeaBIOS] Analysis of the current state and proposed future path for SeaBIOS.

2011-12-10 Thread Fred .
Analysis of the current state and proposed future path for SeaBIOS. == Website == The current SeaBIOS website lacks information and is very basic. SeaBIOS needs a more informative website with documentation and information. == Logo == SeaBIOS have no logo. Award/Phoenix, AMI, Insyde, etc have a

[SeaBIOS] Add bootsplash.jpg and bootsplash.bmp file in tree

2011-12-09 Thread Fred .
Add a default bootsplash.jpg and bootsplash.bmp file in the source tree. ___ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios

Re: [SeaBIOS] Simple Boot Flag Specification

2011-12-09 Thread Fred .
Faster booting due to not POSTing. On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Fred . wrote: I am not a programmer. But I looked at the specification and it looks short and simple, so it looks like it would be quick and easy for a programmer to implement. What would

[SeaBIOS] Request: add support for animated splash screens

2011-12-07 Thread Fred .
In the Windows splash screen the Windows logo is glowing. It would be nice if SeaBIOS supported animated splash screens. This could be done with APNG or MNG. Even GIF, though it has color depth limitations. ___ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org

[SeaBIOS] Pause button

2011-12-05 Thread Fred .
Add so you can press the Pause/Break button on the keyboard to pause the bootup so you can read the messages on the screen because it goes so fast. Other BIOS such as AMI and Award can do this. ___ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org

[SeaBIOS] [PATCH 1/6] Improvements without changing content.

2011-12-04 Thread Fred .
From 679784bb134c4e84531e64de6727b4bc8d0f4d6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: anonymous anonymous@VirtualBox.(none) Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 15:52:07 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/6] Improvements without changing content. --- README | 78

[SeaBIOS] [PATCH 2/6] Fixed capitalization

2011-12-04 Thread Fred .
From 4976cedfde3dd04125a05b4ae9b8eb0944c0985e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: anonymous anonymous@VirtualBox.(none) Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 16:00:54 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/6] Fixed capitalization --- TODO |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index