Re: Attic gone?

2005-01-06 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Eric W. Biederman ebiederman@lnxi.com [050106 04:10]: It seems it's also impossible to check out the old files with cvs co -D 2003-07-30 20:00 freebios2 Very weird. I would run cvs log to see if you can spot the proper revisions and see if you can check out the individual files. I

Re: VGABIOS is working under LinuxBIOS

2005-01-06 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Adam Talbot wrote: I have been told that pulling the vgabios is easy with DD. Never tried this my self. Currently I have been decompressing the rom image and adding the vga bios in by hand. Do you think it would be possible to add a script into the buildtarget script,

Re: Little Tiny LinuxBIOS

2005-01-06 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Joshua Wise wrote: Hi all, Okay, so I just got my grubby paws on an HP tablet - a tc1100, to be exact. Here are the relevant bits from lspci: :00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03) this one is tough, as Intel is not

RE: VGABIOS is working under LinuxBIOS

2005-01-06 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Richard Smith wrote: I guess this means that this is a V2 only thing. Looks like a 440bx port to V2 will be in my near future. Richard, I think moving forward is your best bet. Since the last round of changes V2 has settled down and it is pretty nice. ron

Re: VGABIOS is working under LinuxBIOS

2005-01-06 Thread Greg Watson
On Jan 5, 2005, at 9:40 PM, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Li-Ta Lo wrote: No. The do_vgabios is depreciated and is removed from the CVS. It uses a real mode switch which is very difficult to to debug and not portable. The prefered way now is to use the emulator to execut the

Re: Attic gone?

2005-01-06 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
bitkeeper anyone? I'm using it for a lot of projects and going back to sourceforge all the time is getting annoying. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

RE: VGABIOS is working under LinuxBIOS

2005-01-06 Thread Li-Ta Lo
On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 23:22, Richard Smith wrote: --- Li-Ta Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the emulator to execut the VBIOS. The emulator is acting as the .init method of a generic vga device driver. I guess this means that this is a V2 only thing. Looks like a 440bx port to V2 will

RE: VGABIOS is working under LinuxBIOS

2005-01-06 Thread Richard Smith
--- Ronald G. Minnich rminnich@lanl.gov wrote: I guess this means that this is a V2 only thing. Looks like a 440bx port to V2 will be in my near future. Richard, I think moving forward is your best bet. Since the last round of changes V2 has settled down and it is pretty nice.

RE: VGABIOS is working under LinuxBIOS

2005-01-06 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
In due time V2+filo or V2+kernelkexec is where I'll be headed but I'm just not in a position currently to rewrite my entire setup. ok, then I'd go with Ollie's suggestion of a backport. Actually, it's interesting to note, for a lot of ports V1 is still a pretty handy system to use, since

Re: Attic gone?

2005-01-06 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Ronald G. Minnich rminnich@lanl.gov writes: bitkeeper anyone? I'm using it for a lot of projects and going back to sourceforge all the time is getting annoying. If we made regular releases bitkeeper might be an option. As it is I have extreme problems with their free license. Stefan how has

Re: Attic gone?

2005-01-06 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Eric W. Biederman ebiederman@lnxi.com [050106 21:01]: Ronald G. Minnich rminnich@lanl.gov writes: bitkeeper anyone? I'm using it for a lot of projects and going back to sourceforge all the time is getting annoying. If we made regular releases bitkeeper might be an option. As it is I

Directory structure for x86emu

2005-01-06 Thread Li-Ta Lo
Hello, It turns out that the VGABIOS support can be made pretty generic for all kinds of PCI expansion ROM. So I have the emulator the .init method of default_pci_ops_dev. I am going to add the following directories, if there is no objection, I will commit it next week. src/include/x86emu --

Re: Directory structure for x86emu

2005-01-06 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Li-Ta Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, It turns out that the VGABIOS support can be made pretty generic for all kinds of PCI expansion ROM. So I have the emulator the .init method of default_pci_ops_dev. I am going to add the following directories, if there is no objection, I will

RE: Directory structure for x86emu

2005-01-06 Thread YhLu
Also it should be controlled by some CONFIG_X86EMUin case it is not needed by some configuration. And if CONFIG_CONSOLE_VGA is enabled, it should be automatically enabled YH -Original Message- From: ebiederman@lnxi.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 6:31

Re: Directory structure for x86emu

2005-01-06 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Li-Ta Lo wrote: Any comments ? This is wonderful, as it may solve the SCSI problem too. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: Directory structure for x86emu

2005-01-06 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Li-Ta Lo wrote: Any comments ? This is wonderful, as it may solve the SCSI problem too. I agree with eric that in general going to expansion roms as an option is undesirable, but ... sometimes you have no choice. I

Re: FW: Attic gone?

2005-01-06 Thread Ken Fuchs
Ronald G. Minnich writes: bitkeeper anyone? I'm using it for a lot of projects and going back to sourceforge all the time is getting annoying. If we made regular releases bitkeeper might be an option. As it is I have extreme problems with their free license. I would suggest using Subversion.

fallback and normal image

2005-01-06 Thread Gin
The fallback image tries to load the normal image but if that fails it'll take over and continue with the fallback image. So I am guessing the 2 images are the same. Then why 2 exact the same image? In case of damaged flash area? I am asking this because I want to embed a linux kernel in the