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From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@marasystems.com>
To: karim@opersys.com, Mark Meade <mark@lakeshoremicro.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: No more DoC hotplug on Grub fail [tested & working]
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 18:41:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200209041841.10466.hno@marasystems.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D762DEC.C2517257@opersys.com>

Karim Yaghmour wrote:

> Mark Meade wrote:
> > I tested your Grub patch on a DoC Millennium, it works fine.
>
> Great. I'm glad someone else can confirm that it works.

I can also confirm that the patch to selectively bypass grub works, at least 
on a DoC 2000 24MB. However due to other problems (discussed separately) I 
have not yet been able to use the GRUB firmware in production. Currently 
loading GRUB via the DOS firmware.

> This is one way of looking at it. However, it seems that this then enforces
> a policy on the way developers use their hardware. Providing it as part of
> the official GRUB and having it disabled by default would provide a
> capability without enforcing a policy. A developer could then pass the
> "--enable-doc-check-keybrd" option to "configure" in order to activate the
> keyboard detection. This should be fairly easy to implement since all the
> added code is enclosed in "#ifdef KEYBRD_READ" statements.

Agreed. It is a very valuable patch for anyone considering using GRUB DoC 
firmware, and certainly a must have for the first installs until one gets 
customized to the way GRUB works. Even with a boot loader as fancy as GRUB it 
is easy to fuck things up beyond repair...

Regards
Henrik

  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-04 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-04 14:58 No more DoC hotplug on Grub fail [tested & working] Mark Meade
2002-09-04 15:27 ` Henrik Nordström
2002-09-04 15:59 ` Karim Yaghmour
2002-09-04 16:41   ` Henrik Nordstrom [this message]
2002-09-04 17:40     ` Mark Meade
2002-09-04 18:07   ` Mark Meade
2002-09-04 18:33     ` Karim Yaghmour
2002-09-04 19:15       ` Mark Meade
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-11  8:00 Karim Yaghmour

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