[LinuxBIOS] Illumination books

2007-05-18 Thread MARTIN WOODHOUSE
the weekend with my girlfriend and hence away from my PC. (She is sensible enough never to have looked at a PC of any kind.) I shall be back at my desk Monday lunchtime, though, and will pick up any email or comments you may have straight away. Cheers, Martin Woodhouse -

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Booting into MSDOS

2007-05-18 Thread MARTIN WOODHOUSE
Hello Adam We had limited luck booting Win98 which is the dos. Get disk reading (int13) working reliably and you should be 95% there. Yes, this is at least partly confirmed since I am currently running all my existing Illumination books on a Windows 98 machine, which has no trouble dr

[LinuxBIOS] Booting into MSDOS

2007-05-18 Thread MARTIN WOODHOUSE
Hello Stefan and Darmawan and all Stefan wrote : Since it comes with Linux preinstalled, it should be easier to use Linux than to try getting MSDOS working on there..!? Stefan That may very well be true. But I have a program already written for MSDOS (not Windows) which woul

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Winflashrom - Directory structure consideration

2007-05-18 Thread MARTIN WOODHOUSE
iflash maybe a little outdated, but it runs on top of DOS. I might add DOS support in the future though. Nonetheless, it's not in the top priority list at the moment, due to various constraints. Cheers, Darmawan MARTIN WOODHOUSE wrote: > Hello Darmawan > > May I request -- quite urge

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Winflashrom - Directory structure consideration

2007-05-18 Thread MARTIN WOODHOUSE
opportunity as an educational tool. Cheers, Martin Woodhouse Darmawan Salihun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, Right now, I start laying down the infrastructure for the Windows version of flashrom utility, i.e. the kernel mode driver and the very basic user mode application. Be

[LinuxBIOS] A very good idea

2007-05-04 Thread MARTIN WOODHOUSE
Yestereday Jordan wrotee > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 05:55:39PM -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: > > Mitch wrote a fast path resume from RAM for the OLPC Geode > > hardware. > > The fastest path is obviously attractive also in LinuxBIOS. > > > > Once you've done that, you find that you've done just

[LinuxBIOS] Some philosophy

2007-05-03 Thread MARTIN WOODHOUSE
Hello children -- (I'm allowed to say "Hello, children" without giving you offence because I'm rising seventy-five years old and wrote my first computer program in 1957 --- hey, that's exactly half a century ago this year ! --- for a processor which, as it happens, I had built myself using