On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 02:09:11PM +0100, phcoder wrote:
> IMO linux16 for pc/linux.c would better reflect the difference with
> normal 'linux' command.
I'm fine with that. Does anyone object to the proposed rename?
Note this implies the new Linux loader becomes the default in grub-mkconfig
se
IMO linux16 for pc/linux.c would better reflect the difference with
normal 'linux' command.
Robert Millan wrote:
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 08:44:47PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
This new patch avoids the problem by accessing struct grub_video_render_target
from its current location.
When we have
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 08:44:47PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
>
> This new patch avoids the problem by accessing struct grub_video_render_target
> from its current location.
>
> When we have more than one video backend, and a clear idea on which parts are
> generic and which are backend-specific
From: Robert Millan
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:44:47 +0100
> When we have more than one video backend, and a clear idea on which parts are
> generic and which are backend-specific, we could readjust. For now this makes
> VBE happy.
I intend to write an ofvideo.c driver, so we'll have that
opport
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 03:35:30PM +0200, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
> >> Note: As the comment in grub/video.h says, struct grub_video_render_target
> >> didn't really want to be moved. My code only needs to access it to find
> >> the framebuffer address. Perhaps it'd be bett
Robert Millan wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 08:57:35PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
>> This patch integrates the generic Linux loader with gfxterm. The result is
>> that graphical mode becomes usable with this loader. Our loader gets the
>> screen settings from the video subsystem (as per gfxte
Sorry, forgot to attach it.
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 02:01:06PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 08:57:35PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> >
> > This patch integrates the generic Linux loader with gfxterm. The result is
> > that graphical mode becomes usable with this loader.
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 08:57:35PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
>
> This patch integrates the generic Linux loader with gfxterm. The result is
> that graphical mode becomes usable with this loader. Our loader gets the
> screen settings from the video subsystem (as per gfxterm setup), and passes
>
This patch integrates the generic Linux loader with gfxterm. The result is
that graphical mode becomes usable with this loader. Our loader gets the
screen settings from the video subsystem (as per gfxterm setup), and passes
them to Linux.
This way GRUB/gfxterm can transition to Linux/fb with no
