Re: Fuloong liberated

2011-05-16 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 16.05.2011 11:12, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Hello all. As you all probably know the Floong as shipped by lemote uses > a 64K binary blob to initialize the video which makes it non-free. > Fortunately now there is an alternative: GRUB2. To generate firmware > image do: > bzr

Re: Fuloong liberated

2011-05-16 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
> Be sure to have backup chip before > flashing. I really mean it. Failed flashing or failed image (since as of now there is no release with fuloong support, so you have to use development branch). Compatible chip is SST-39VF040. You can get them from Mouser (USA) or Distrelec (Switzerland). I don'

Re: [loongson-dev] Fuloong liberated

2011-05-16 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Mon, 16 May 2011 11:12:42 +0200 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Hello all. As you all probably know the Floong as shipped by lemote uses > a 64K binary blob to initialize the video which makes it non-free. > Fortunately now there is an alternative: GRUB2. Hello, So you are rep

Re: [loongson-dev] Fuloong liberated

2011-05-16 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 16.05.2011 18:05, Roman Mamedov wrote: > On Mon, 16 May 2011 11:12:42 +0200 > Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > >> Hello all. As you all probably know the Floong as shipped by lemote uses >> a 64K binary blob to initialize the video which makes it non-free. >> Fortunately now there

Fuloong liberated

2011-05-16 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Hello all. As you all probably know the Floong as shipped by lemote uses a 64K binary blob to initialize the video which makes it non-free. Fortunately now there is an alternative: GRUB2. To generate firmware image do: bzr branch http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/trunk/grub cd grub ./configure --t