On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 09:52:10AM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
> >
> > - Missing some parts of AT keyboard driver (arrows don't work).
>
> Is this a general issue with your driver? For arrow keys you need to
> process multiple scancodes, IIRC.
Yes. Other keys that are composed in the same way aren't captured either.
Should be trivial to fix but I haven't had time so far :-/
> > - Can only access SD cards (via OFW callbacks), in any of the filesystems
> > supported by GRUB. Accessing the NAND or USB drives will require adding
> > new drivers (I expect the latter will come soon, since it is also needed
> > on i386-pc).
>
> What kind of interface does the NAND drive have? ATA? ;-)
No way, there's no room for legacy cruft in such a small laptop ;-)
> > - Supports serial terminal (I couldn't try this on real hardware, but I
> > assume it works).
>
> So this is not an issue now?
Real hardware has a serial port, but only if you have an adaptor (which I
don't).
> > - Loader only supports Multiboot2 images for now.
>
> There are multiboot kernels already? :-)
I wrote two of them, hang.S and crash.S. They aren't very useful but serve as
testcase most of the time.
--
Robert Millan
<GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call!
<DRM> What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak?
(as seen on /.)
/* Trivial multiboot2 program.
gcc -fno-builtin -nostdinc -m32 -nostdlib -Wl,-N -Wl,-Ttext -Wl,0x100000 -o
hang hang.S
*/
.file "startup.S"
.text
.globl _start
_start:
jmp _start
.long 0xe85250d6
.long 0
.long -0xe85250d6
/* Trivial multiboot2 program.
gcc -fno-builtin -nostdinc -m32 -nostdlib -Wl,-N -Wl,-Ttext -Wl,0x100000 -o
crash crash.S
*/
.file "startup.S"
.text
.globl _start
_start:
.long 0xe85250d6
.long 0
.long -0xe85250d6
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