Hi,
2010/3/28 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko :
> Also I'm aware that at least some people want more tags. Feel free to
> propose new ones.
> In short all ammendment ideas are welcome.
Here's my list.. :-)
1) If GRUB was using a serial port as a console device (e.g. on a
headless system) i
Brendan Trotter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2010/3/28 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko :
>
>> Also I'm aware that at least some people want more tags. Feel free to
>> propose new ones.
>> In short all ammendment ideas are welcome.
>>
>
> Here's my list.. :-)
>
> 1) If GRUB was using a serial port
Hi,
2010/4/3 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko :
> Brendan Trotter wrote:
>> 1) If GRUB was using a serial port as a console device (e.g. on a
>> headless system) it'd be nice if the OS could continue using the same
>> serial port with the same configuration instead of resetting the
>> serial
This thread has the right name so I'll just reply here.
0) It should be specified in Multiboot 2 that Multiboot 1 can optionally be
supported by boot loaders when a different magic number is used.
1) The boot loader should calibrate timers that need this. I don't know about
other architectures, b
>>> 8) Any RAM that is not immediately usable by the OS should not be
>>> reported as "usable RAM" in the memory map. An example of this is the
>>> "ACPI reclaimable" area (which is RAM that isn't usable until the OS
>>> has finished using the ACPI tables). RAM used to store the multi-boot
>>> info
Brendan Trotter wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>> the IRQ number (if known/used by the boot loader) and the protocol
>>> being used (ASCII, VT100, etc).
>>>
>> I think it's more useful to supply directly usable strings termcap
>> strings rather than an abstract ID
>>
>
> Here's an example termcap s
Bogdan wrote:
> This thread has the right name so I'll just reply here.
>
> 1) The boot loader should calibrate timers that need this. I don't know about
> other architectures, but in x86(-64) systems, these are the RDTSC and the
> LAPIC. Needless to say, this must also be done when such hardware i
Hi,
2010/4/10 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko :
>> Making sense out of arbitrary termcap strings isn't easy - it would
>> add a large amount of mess to early OS initialisation code (which
>> typically doesn't even have C library functions to rely on). A single
>> integer saying "which protoc
Brendan Trotter wrote:
>>> I currently use "PC speaker" as my "critical error notification
>>> method" - it's about 15 instructions that use I/O ports only and
>>> doesn't require memory allocations or anything else. I doubt setting
>>> keyboard LEDs (for a PS/2 keyboard) would be much larger or re
Hi,
2010/4/21 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko :
> Brendan Trotter wrote:
>> Where possible, I currently use the EDID information to determine the
>> physical size of the monitor (e.g. "520 mm wide and 320 mm high"), and
>> then scale font data, etc to suit; so that everything is the same
>>
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