From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JEvxM-0007xG-KA for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:16:36 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JEvxK-0007ws-Pk for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:16:34 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JEvxJ-0007wU-BZ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:16:34 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JEvxJ-0007wR-6Y for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:16:33 -0500 Received: from c60.cesmail.net ([216.154.195.49]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JEvxJ-0006Lm-8b for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:16:33 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO relay.cesmail.net) ([192.168.1.81]) by c60.cesmail.net with ESMTP; 15 Jan 2008 19:16:32 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.21] (static-72-92-88-10.phlapa.fios.verizon.net [72.92.88.10]) by relay.cesmail.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFE14618FE1 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:16:31 -0500 (EST) From: Pavel Roskin To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <20080115182033.GB31246@thorin> References: <20080115175926.GA21483@thorin> <1200420531.17542.15.camel@dv> <20080115182033.GB31246@thorin> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:16:31 -0500 Message-Id: <1200442591.16148.1.camel@dv> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.2 (2.12.2-3.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: [PATCH] Initial i386-ieee1275 support X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:16:35 -0000 On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 19:20 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 01:08:51PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > > > What hardware is it for? XO? > > Yes. Although I did the port on qemu (but it's known to work on XO). That's great! > > How is it different from i386-linuxbios? Doesn't LinuxBIOS imply > > OpenBIOS, which is (or strives to be) ieee1275 compliant? > > LinuxBIOS (now CoreBoot) is just the low level initialization. OpenBIOS > is an implementation of IEEE-1275 that can be run on top of CoreBoot as > payload. > > Our i386-linuxbios port makes GRUB run as payload directly, where it has > to access hardware by itself, etc. I see. Thanks! -- Regards, Pavel Roskin