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
next prev parent 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
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2002-08-11 8:00 Karim Yaghmour
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