IIRC, that's what Greg's addition of FILO for PPC was all about. On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Frank wrote:
> Finally, someone has recognized the lack of support with > LinuxBios. About 6 months ago we decide to do an x86 based > project but abandoned it because of the lack of support for this > bootloader. The code is disorganized and in disarray as far as > I'm concerend. We were on a tight schedule and didn't have the > luxury of spending a lot of time trying to understand the code > layout. This was due in part to the lack of badly needed > documentation and code organization. We decided to base our > design on a powerpc and go with u-boot. > Hopefully by the time we decide to do cost reduced version, > LinuxBios will be usable for the masses and not just for an > elite group of people who assume everybody else uses the x86 for > everyday use.:-( > > --- Greg Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Jun 8, 2004, at 7:59 AM, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > > > > > * Greg Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040608 15:22]: > > >> I think this is a reasonable idea, particularly your > > suggestion of > > >> making linuxbios more modular. One of my main beefs with > > the payload > > >> strategy is that each payload has to provide it's own set > > of, > > >> potentially buggy, driver code. If we have 5 payloads then > > we have 5 > > >> sets of drivers that all do the same thing slightly > > differently. If > > >> the > > >> drivers were modular enough so that a payload could call > > them > > >> directly, > > >> then this would go a long way to addressing these concerns. > > > > > > As far as I can tell the only drivers involved would be > > output drivers, > > > ie. video output and serial output. There the extensible > > LinuxBIOS > > > table > > > could come into play. The video driver could store a pointer > > to the > > > framebuffer, the resolution and maybe even a font, to save > > duplicates. > > > Serial is only a kilobyte or so of a driver i think. > > > > > > Have I forgotten something? > > > > > > > PCI device code and resource information should be available > > for > > payloads to use. A payload should not have to re-probe for > > devices on > > the PCI bus. > > > > Greg > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linuxbios mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. > http://messenger.yahoo.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
