Re: [PROPOSAL] extended payload handling

2004-06-14 Thread Mathieu Deschamps
I agree with what is said here, except if I may... I need to react to your questions and This topic is NOT a question of purity of code or of something nor only a policy... Brief : this is a stacke... But let admitting that the question of extending the payload handling seems central and IMHO

Re: [PROPOSAL] extended payload handling

2004-06-14 Thread Eric W. Biederman
2.) LinuxBIOS can currently execute one payload. For greater flexibility and isolated development cycles of the firmware related code parts/projects LinuxBIOS should allow payload chains, ie. executing multiple payloads one after the other. LinuxBIOS wants to keep up it's modularity,

Re: [PROPOSAL] extended payload handling

2004-06-14 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There has been a similar proposal on this list a while ago, but nothing happened so far, so I want to put this pack to discussion. Objectives -- 1.) LinuxBIOS is kind of hard to set up for project newbies, since it does not only

Re: Doc translation

2004-06-14 Thread Nathanael Noblet
On Monday, June 14, 2004, at 04:54 AM, Mathieu Deschamps wrote: Hello LinuxBiosers, I have finish my reporting activities, i'am submiting my work. It is has been done during my training period of 2 months or so. This was a short time and maybe I'am not experimenced enough to give something to more

Re: [PROPOSAL] extended payload handling

2004-06-14 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Li-Ta Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 06:27, Stefan Reinauer wrote: * Kevin O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040610 06:09]: If I understand your proposal correctly, one of the major issues will be ensuring that the payloads don't step on each other or linuxbios when they

Re: Doc translation

2004-06-14 Thread Hendricks David W.
It certainly did look impressive... All sorts of charts and stuff :) It'll be interesting to read it when it's translated. On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Nathanael Noblet wrote: On Monday, June 14, 2004, at 04:54 AM, Mathieu Deschamps wrote: Hello LinuxBiosers, I have finish my reporting

Re: [PROPOSAL] extended payload handling

2004-06-14 Thread ron minnich
On 14 Jun 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote: - Too many linuxbios options need to be specified in the top level configuration file, or they don't work. yes, that's on my list too. - We don't have stable releases. You get snapshot of they day instead. yes. I'm not so sure I get this

Re: Doc translation

2004-06-14 Thread Bari Ari
Hendricks David W. wrote: It certainly did look impressive... All sorts of charts and stuff :) It'll be interesting to read it when it's translated. Um wow!, I don't know if anyone else downloaded and started reading that (I don't know who knows french on this list). In anycase, Mathieu's

Re: [PROPOSAL] extended payload handling

2004-06-14 Thread Hendricks David W.
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, ron minnich wrote: I'm not so sure I get this 'bloated' discussion. LinuxBIOS is around 32K. What's bloat? linuxbios overall is about the size of 'cat'. Closer to dog, actually :) http://jl.photodex.com/dog/dog-1.7.tar.gz ___

Re: [PROPOSAL] extended payload handling

2004-06-14 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Hendricks David W. wrote: On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, ron minnich wrote: I'm not so sure I get this 'bloated' discussion. LinuxBIOS is around 32K. What's bloat? linuxbios overall is about the size of 'cat'. Closer to dog, actually :)

cvs freebios locked?

2004-06-14 Thread John Usher (Maptek)
Title: Message Hi all, I'm trying to 'cvs co freebios', but am getting 'waiting for xx's lock in /cvsroot/freebios/freebios/src/northsouthbridge/sis'. This was been happening for 16+ hours now. What is the story with that? ...ta...john

RE: cvs freebios locked?

2004-06-14 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Check your CVS command string. SF updated to a newer release of BIND, and it has a problem with the way the domains were arranged from the earlier versions. So it becomes like this: #cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/freebios login and then: #cvs -z3

RE: cvs freebios locked?

2004-06-14 Thread John Usher (Maptek)
Hello from Gregg C Levine Check your CVS command string. SF updated to a newer release of BIND, and it has a problem with the way the domains were arranged from the earlier versions. So it becomes like this: #cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/freebios login and then: Yeah. I