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Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 15:09:36 +0200
From: Robert Millan <rmh@...abtu.com>
To: Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...hat.com,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] OLPC: pci: fix up PCI stuff so that PCI_GOANY supports OLPC
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 08:46:33AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 13:05:49 +0200
> Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz> wrote:
>
> > On Thu 2008-06-05 15:29:14, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > > Previously, one would have to specifically choose CONFIG_OLPC and
> > > CONFIG_PCI_GOOLPC in order to enable PCI_OLPC. That doesn't really
> > > work for distro kernels, so this patch allows one to choose
> >
> > How do distros work on OLPC, anyway? It lacks normal BIOS, so you
> > can't really use GRUB, right?
> > Pavel
>
> I believe Robert was actually working on grub support.
The OLPC port of GRUB is mostly complete now. There's a problem with
finding the boot drive though (I'm working on that atm). Other details
at http://grub.enbug.org/OLPC
As for the BIOS dependency, GRUB 2 is very portable so it wasn't a problem
(we used the existing keyboard driver from the Coreboot port, and the OFW
client framework we already had for powerpc).
> I thought it made
> little sense within the context of OFW, but if it is a requirement to make
> installers happy, so be it.
Some might find it practical to have the GRUB menu & update-grub to autobuild
it :-)
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