Syslinux currently looks for a 640x480 mode unless MENU RESOLUTION is given.
On April 16, 2014 5:12:21 PM PDT, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 04:25:48PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 04/16/2014 04:21 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
>> > If I build SeaVGABIOS without vesa and run th
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 04:25:48PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 04/16/2014 04:21 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > If I build SeaVGABIOS without vesa and run the Fedora 16 (or later)
> > installer in qemu I get a menu that is not centered and the bottom
> > line of the menu box isn't drawn. Also,
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Uh... seriously, robustness is a good thing, and it is not entirely
> clear that this responsibility necessarily belongs in Coreboot.
It's clear to me. The coreboot (all lowercase please) code for QEMU
isn't neccessarily complete, and needs these kinds of improvements.
>
On 04/16/2014 03:47 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 06:56:57PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> Emulating attributes would be great so you can actually navigate
>> bootloader menus.
>
> I took a look a closer look at this. Some things I found:
>
> - it looks like the syslinux m
On 04/16/2014 03:59 PM, Peter Stuge wrote:
> Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>> -pci_config_maskw(bdf, PCI_COMMAND, 0, PCI_COMMAND_MASTER);
>>> +pci_config_maskw(bdf, PCI_COMMAND, 0, PCI_COMMAND_MASTER |
>>> PCI_COMMAND_IO | PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY);
>>
>> I think that should go in. If w
On 04/16/2014 04:21 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 04:00:07PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 04/16/2014 03:47 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 06:56:57PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
Emulating attributes would be great so you can actually navigate
>
Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > -pci_config_maskw(bdf, PCI_COMMAND, 0, PCI_COMMAND_MASTER);
> > +pci_config_maskw(bdf, PCI_COMMAND, 0, PCI_COMMAND_MASTER |
> > PCI_COMMAND_IO | PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY);
>
> I think that should go in. If we need it, we better make sure it
> is enabled
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 04:00:07PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 04/16/2014 03:47 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 06:56:57PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> >> Emulating attributes would be great so you can actually navigate
> >> bootloader menus.
> >
> > I took a look a cl
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 06:56:57PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Emulating attributes would be great so you can actually navigate
> bootloader menus.
I took a look a closer look at this. Some things I found:
- it looks like the syslinux menu on recent Fedora versions doesn't
work correctly at
OK, so I have the "legacy" (field-by-field, types 0 and 1 only) code
back in, right next to the new aggregate-smbios-table-plus-entrypoint
code, tested and apparently working fine.
Before I get carried away with "git rebase", do we still want to go
through the whole patch sequence of generating ag
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 06:56:57PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> And we don't have a cursor I've noticed meanwhile. That would be very
> helpful for editing your linux cmd line in the boot loader. A blinking
> cursor is probably a bit unrealistic (need timer interrupt etc), but
> emulating a bloc
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 06:48:43PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > That said, CONFIG_ATA_DMA is
> > very fragile and it may be worth just removing at some point.
>
> Why is it fragile?
On PATA you're supposed to do all these weird controller specific
stuff to make sure DMA works, to
Hi,
> But, it does raise the question of how many other callers expect the
> bios to not mess with the segment limits. (Though, to be honest, the
> only goal I have with coreboot native seavgabios is support for grub,
> lilo, syslinux, and maybe ntldr.)
Yes, it should be good enough for bootl
Hi,
> But, it does raise the question of how many other callers expect the
> bios to not mess with the segment limits. (Though, to be honest, the
> only goal I have with coreboot native seavgabios is support for grub,
> lilo, syslinux, and maybe ntldr.)
Yes, it should be good enough for bootl
Hi,
> That said, CONFIG_ATA_DMA is
> very fragile and it may be worth just removing at some point.
Why is it fragile?
cheers,
Gerd
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On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 02:22:51PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> So you can try this:
>
> qemu -vga std -bios /usr/share/coreboot.git/coreboot-i440fx-seabios.rom
>
> to see it live in action.
>
> Two problems spotted so far:
>
> (1) ipxe hangs at rom load time.
> can be worked around by
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 06:17:45PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > --- a/src/hw/ata.c
> > +++ b/src/hw/ata.c
>
> > -pci_config_maskw(bdf, PCI_COMMAND, 0, PCI_COMMAND_MASTER);
> > +pci_config_maskw(bdf, PCI_COMMAND, 0, PCI_COMMAND_MASTER |
> > PCI_COMMAND_IO | PC
Hi,
> --- a/src/hw/ata.c
> +++ b/src/hw/ata.c
> -pci_config_maskw(bdf, PCI_COMMAND, 0, PCI_COMMAND_MASTER);
> +pci_config_maskw(bdf, PCI_COMMAND, 0, PCI_COMMAND_MASTER |
> PCI_COMMAND_IO | PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY);
Ah. I think that should go in. If we need it, we better m
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 07:52:47AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Oddly, I can't boot from a hard drive (-hda) when I use the
> > coreboot/seabios I built though. It keeps failing at "Booting from
> > Hard Disk...".
>
> I see that with my builds too, but only with -vga std (where core
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 09:55:20PM +0300, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
> If a pci-2-pci bridge supports hot-plug functionality but there are no devices
> connected to it, reserve IO/mem in order to be able to attach devices
> later. Do not waste space, use minimum allowed.
Thanks - I have committed thi
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:00:50PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Kevin O'Connor
FYI, I have committed this patch.
-Kevin
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On 15 Apr 2014, at 21:22, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> On FreeBSD, the name of the emulation is "-melf_i386_fbsd", so allow
> SeaBIOS to fetch the emulation to use from the environment variables.
the same with -melf_i386_sol2 on illumos based platform.
LGTM from me here.
-Igor
> This allows SeaBI
On Wed, 2014-04-16 at 14:48 +0200, Idwer Vollering wrote:
> 2014-04-16 9:14 GMT+02:00 Roger Pau Monne :
> > On FreeBSD, the name of the emulation is "-melf_i386_fbsd", so allow
> > SeaBIOS to fetch the emulation to use from the environment variables.
> >
> > This allows SeaBIOS to compile on FreeBS
2014-04-16 9:14 GMT+02:00 Roger Pau Monne :
> On FreeBSD, the name of the emulation is "-melf_i386_fbsd", so allow
> SeaBIOS to fetch the emulation to use from the environment variables.
>
> This allows SeaBIOS to compile on FreeBSD with gcc.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné
Acked-by: Idwer Vol
2014-04-16 14:38 GMT+02:00 Idwer Vollering :
> 2014-04-16 9:14 GMT+02:00 Roger Pau Monne :
>> On FreeBSD, the name of the emulation is "-melf_i386_fbsd", so allow
>> SeaBIOS to fetch the emulation to use from the environment variables.
>>
>> This allows SeaBIOS to compile on FreeBSD with gcc.
>
>>
2014-04-16 9:14 GMT+02:00 Roger Pau Monne :
> On FreeBSD, the name of the emulation is "-melf_i386_fbsd", so allow
> SeaBIOS to fetch the emulation to use from the environment variables.
>
> This allows SeaBIOS to compile on FreeBSD with gcc.
> +LD32BIT_FLAG:=-melf_i386
That will not work, see be
On Di, 2014-04-15 at 20:47 -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:29:26AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > Leave the old interface code basically as-is. type0 and type1
> > individual fields are passed like they are passed today. We don't
> > change to to pass full tables, and w
On Wed, 2014-04-16 at 09:14 +0200, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> On FreeBSD, the name of the emulation is "-melf_i386_fbsd", so allow
> SeaBIOS to fetch the emulation to use from the environment variables.
>
> This allows SeaBIOS to compile on FreeBSD with gcc.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné
> Cc
On FreeBSD, the name of the emulation is "-melf_i386_fbsd", so allow
SeaBIOS to fetch the emulation to use from the environment variables.
This allows SeaBIOS to compile on FreeBSD with gcc.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné
Cc: Ian Campbell
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