On 12/5/07, Myles Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linuxbios- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jun Koi > > On 12/5/07, Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Peter Stuge wrote: > > > > Hello Jun, > > > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 12:54:42PM +0900, Jun Koi wrote: > > > > > > > >> If I use the original QEMU BIOS, at least biosdecode reports BIOS32 > > > >> Service Dir + PCI IRQ table + ACPI. > > > >> > > > >> So why LinuxBIOS removes those information? > > > >> > > > > > > > > This is on purpose. > > > > > > > > One motivation for LB is that most if not all interfaces that are > > > > associated with the term BIOS should be deprecated. > > > > > > > > LB does not strive to be BIOS compatible by design. > > > > > > > But this is not true for Jun's setting with LinuxBIOS + ADLO. > > > > > > I don't think we remove anything on purpose there. > > > > Yes, I guess the information (biosdecode) must be there, as I use Boch > > BIOS with LinuxBIOS, but not LinuxBIOS only. > > > > And interestingly, there is no option to make 32bit BIOS in > > ADLO/bochs/bios/Makefile. I simply generated bochs/bios/bios.bin by > > running "make" inside ADLO/ > > > > So I think the question becomes: how to get 32bit BIOS now? > > You need to add a new version of the loader since the BIOS is larger, and > use the larger elf header.
You mean the new version of ADLO is needed? > > I'm planning on doing that in the near future. > Anything I can help here? Or if you can give some hints, I will try to do something (Currently I am not used to the ADLO code yet) Thanks, Jun -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
