Multiboot video in GRUB (Re: [RFC] Multiboot ammendment: non-VBE video)

2010-01-12 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 07:26:08PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > === added file 'ChangeLog.efiboot' > --- ChangeLog.efiboot 1970-01-01 00:00:00 + > +++ ChangeLog.efiboot 2010-01-02 01:48:33 + > @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ > +2009-11-28 Vladimir Serbinenko > + > + Multib

Re: [RFC] Multiboot ammendment: non-VBE video

2010-01-12 Thread Robert Millan
Hi, I committed your last patch with some minor stylistic adjustments, plus your changes to the example kernel. -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gn

Re: [RFC] Multiboot ammendment: non-VBE video

2010-01-07 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Robert Millan wrote: > >> Bootloader will use a mode it >> chooses. Perhaps we should remove recommended mode fields from the spec >> altogether or make them somehow optional >> > > Is that important? I'm hesitant to do that untill we have better > understanding > on what lead to this decisi

Re: [RFC] Multiboot ammendment: non-VBE video

2010-01-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 08:35:38PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > > >> + .long 0 > >> + .long 1024 > >> + .long 768 > >> + .long 32 > >> > > > > Maybe better to use 640x480 instead? Not everyone has a large display. > > > > > It's onl

Re: [RFC] Multiboot ammendment: non-VBE video

2010-01-04 Thread richardvo...@gmail.com
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Isaac Dupree wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: >>> >>> In this case color_info is defined as following: >> >> I'd appreciate if a native English speaker confirms this, but I believe >> this should say "as follows" (same for the other instances of this >> construct). >

Re: [RFC] Multiboot ammendment: non-VBE video

2010-01-04 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Robert Millan wrote: > >> +.long 0 >> +.long 1024 >> +.long 768 >> +.long 32 >> > > Maybe better to use 640x480 instead? Not everyone has a large display. > > It's only a recommended resolution. Bootloader will use a mode it chooses. Perhaps we should remove recommended

Re: [RFC] Multiboot ammendment: non-VBE video

2010-01-03 Thread Isaac Dupree
Robert Millan wrote: In this case color_info is defined as following: I'd appreciate if a native English speaker confirms this, but I believe this should say "as follows" (same for the other instances of this construct). "as follows" reads naturally to me, as a native speaker (also checked:

Re: [RFC] Multiboot ammendment: non-VBE video

2010-01-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 07:26:08PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > I followed your suggestions. I attach new draft together with drawing of > a blue diagonal line in example kernel (it would be way better to make > it use it for output but it's intended to just show how to us

Re: [RFC] Multiboot ammendment: non-VBE video

2010-01-02 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Robert Millan wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 01:07:10PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' > Serbinenko wrote: > >> Robert Millan wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 05:37:11PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hello. I'm implementing video part of

Re: [RFC] Multiboot ammendment: non-VBE video

2010-01-01 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 01:07:10PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 05:37:11PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko > > wrote: > > > >> Hello. I'm implementing video part of multiboot specification. > >> Currently the only d

Re: [RFC] Multiboot ammendment: non-VBE video

2009-12-28 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Robert Millan wrote: > On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 05:37:11PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > >> Hello. I'm implementing video part of multiboot specification. >> Currently the only defined interface is for providing VBE info. I >> propose following way to set fields if video is non VB

Re: [RFC] Multiboot ammendment: non-VBE video

2009-12-24 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 05:37:11PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Hello. I'm implementing video part of multiboot specification. > Currently the only defined interface is for providing VBE info. I > propose following way to set fields if video is non VBE: > vbe_control_info=0xfff

[RFC] Multiboot ammendment: non-VBE video

2009-09-01 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Hello. I'm implementing video part of multiboot specification. Currently the only defined interface is for providing VBE info. I propose following way to set fields if video is non VBE: vbe_control_info=0x When vbe_control_info is set to 0x all VBE-specific fields are invalid vbe_mo