Maybe someone can port the Etherboot to powerpc. And it should be some easy.
Regards YH -----邮件原件----- 发件人: Frank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 发送时间: 2004年6月8日 10:00 收件人: Greg Watson; Stefan Reinauer 抄送: LinuxBIOS 主题: Re: [PROPOSAL] extended payload handling 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
