Re: new Linux loader (Re: [PATCH] linux/gfxterm integration)

2009-03-21 Thread Robert Millan
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

Re: new Linux loader (Re: [PATCH] linux/gfxterm integration)

2009-03-18 Thread phcoder
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

new Linux loader (Re: [PATCH] linux/gfxterm integration)

2009-03-18 Thread Robert Millan
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

Re: [PATCH] linux/gfxterm integration

2009-03-13 Thread David Miller
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

Re: [PATCH] linux/gfxterm integration

2009-03-13 Thread Robert Millan
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

Re: [PATCH] linux/gfxterm integration

2009-03-08 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
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

Re: [PATCH] linux/gfxterm integration

2009-03-08 Thread Robert Millan
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.

Re: [PATCH] linux/gfxterm integration

2009-03-08 Thread Robert Millan
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 >