From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from marasystems.com ([213.15.252.90] helo=filer.marasystems.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 17mdDO-0001wX-00 for ; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 17:41:15 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Henrik Nordstrom To: karim@opersys.com, Mark Meade Subject: Re: No more DoC hotplug on Grub fail [tested & working] Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 18:41:10 +0200 Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org References: <20020904145950.DRRI12451.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@there> <3D762DEC.C2517257@opersys.com> In-Reply-To: <3D762DEC.C2517257@opersys.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200209041841.10466.hno@marasystems.com> Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: 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