Re: [LinuxBIOS] Xvesa on LinuxBIOS

2007-03-01 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi Carl, 2007/3/1, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > LinuxBIOS has builtin LZMA support which saves you ~30-50kb over > the LZMA kernel patch. Simply lzma the right vmlinux file. > sure, really this is a better idea, I will test it. > Regards, > Carl-Daniel Best regards, Ala

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Xvesa on LinuxBIOS

2007-03-01 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi, On 28.02.2007 21:53, Alan Carvalho de Assis wrote: > Other problem is the space, the 2MB BIOS flash is completely full, I > removed almost everything from kernel, including printk support. I > will apply the LZMA patch in kernel, maybe I will get more space. LinuxBIOS has builtin LZMA support

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Xvesa on LinuxBIOS

2007-02-28 Thread David Hendricks
Somewhere, a deity has just killed a kitten. It's an interesting idea, though. If things need to be done this way, there ought to at least be a free alternative to the EFI approach. On 2/28/07, Alan Carvalho de Assis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes it is fantastic, all we need inside a BIOS. -

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Xvesa on LinuxBIOS

2007-02-28 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi Dave, 2007/2/28, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 26/02/07, Alan Carvalho de Assis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > After I will record a video and place in youtube to others people see > > it > > Please make the video available in the free software Ogg/Theora format too :-) > Ok, no

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Xvesa on LinuxBIOS

2007-02-28 Thread Dave Crossland
On 28/02/07, Peter Stuge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 03:13:37PM +, Dave Crossland wrote: > > On 26/02/07, Alan Carvalho de Assis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > youtube > > Ogg/Theora > > Check out vixy.net Wow! That is awesome :-) -- Regards, Dave -- linuxbios ma

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Xvesa on LinuxBIOS

2007-02-28 Thread Peter Stuge
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 03:13:37PM +, Dave Crossland wrote: > On 26/02/07, Alan Carvalho de Assis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > After I will record a video and place in youtube to others people see > > it > > Please make the video available in the free software Ogg/Theora format > too :-)

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Xvesa on LinuxBIOS

2007-02-28 Thread Dave Crossland
On 26/02/07, Alan Carvalho de Assis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After I will record a video and place in youtube to others people see > it Please make the video available in the free software Ogg/Theora format too :-) > I hope we can create something like the Phoenix BIOS to read email > and b

[LinuxBIOS] Xvesa on LinuxBIOS

2007-02-26 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi Ron, 2007/2/26, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Alan, this is an interesting idea. yes, I think it is a good idea too although some friends said me it is a crazy idea :) >I wonder how I would replicate your > setup in order to try to replicate your problem? A way to you replicate this pro

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Xvesa on LinuxBIOS

2007-02-25 Thread ron minnich
Alan, this is an interesting idea. I wonder how I would replicate your setup in order to try to replicate your problem? I am not sure why this is happening, UNLESS ... does Xvesa make some assumptions about the location of tables or information it uses to start up? What does Xvesa do? The only VESA

[LinuxBIOS] Xvesa on LinuxBIOS

2007-02-25 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi guys, I want place Xvesa (kdrive) inside BIOS, to get graphic mode. First I compiled Xvesa with uclibc, created a rootfs tree with it and compiled the kernel with it inside (CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE pointing to this directory). Then created a GRUB option to call this kernel image. Using the ori