Re: Mouse support in GRUB

2011-12-13 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 01.10.2011 23:18, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: On 01.10.2011 23:11, Vincent Pelletier wrote: More seriously, I feel the only value in this patch is in the ieee1275 wrappers for framebuffer entrypoints. Yes, that's interesting. We have ieee1275 framebuffer support on ppc but i

Re: Mouse support in GRUB

2011-10-01 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 01.10.2011 23:11, Vincent Pelletier wrote: > More seriously, I feel the only value in this patch is in the ieee1275 > wrappers for framebuffer entrypoints. Yes, that's interesting. We have ieee1275 framebuffer support on ppc but it fails and hence is disabled on sparc. Expecting this patch will

Re: Mouse support in GRUB

2011-10-01 Thread Vincent Pelletier
Le samedi 01 octobre 2011 15:39:12, Tirtha Chatterjee a écrit : > So I wish to work on implementing mouse support for GRUB. I've attached the result of my early fidling with grub on sparc. Yeah, once I got grub to load, I made a serial msmouse work instead of working on things like actually getti

Re: Mouse support in GRUB

2011-10-01 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 01.10.2011 19:12, Michal Suchanek wrote: > On 1 October 2011 15:39, Tirtha Chatterjee > wrote: >> Hi GRUB devels, >> >> recently I came across the improvements made by Microsoft Windows 8 in >> their bootloader. >> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/20/reengineering-the-windows-boot-exp

Re: Mouse support in GRUB

2011-10-01 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 1 October 2011 15:39, Tirtha Chatterjee wrote: > Hi GRUB devels, > > recently I came across the improvements made by Microsoft Windows 8 in > their bootloader. > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/20/reengineering-the-windows-boot-experience.aspx > > However I despise the operating syst

Re: Mouse support in GRUB

2011-10-01 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 01.10.2011 15:39, Tirtha Chatterjee wrote: > It would be really wonderful if someone with experience with the > relevant code can help me by guiding me when needed, and help me with > a few of the problems i am facing with testing my build of GRUB with > qemu. This is not an easy task. Unlike ke

Mouse support in GRUB

2011-10-01 Thread Tirtha Chatterjee
Hi GRUB devels, recently I came across the improvements made by Microsoft Windows 8 in their bootloader. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/20/reengineering-the-windows-boot-experience.aspx However I despise the operating system itself ( :-P ), the idea of a beautiful graphical bootloader