Multiboot overhaul

2007-06-20 Thread Mikhail Vorozhtsov
Hi. I'm working on a microkernel for x86_64 (with looking forward to ppc64 and sparc64 ports). As you know, microkernels are quite useless without user-space servers that provide "classic" OS services. But microkernels are so useless that they even cannot load servers from disk :). That's why boo

Re: Multiboot overhaul

2007-06-20 Thread Marco Gerards
Mikhail Vorozhtsov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, > I'm working on a microkernel for x86_64 (with looking forward to ppc64 > and sparc64 ports). As you know, microkernels are quite useless without > user-space servers that provide "classic" OS services. But microkernels > are so useless that the

Fwd: Bug#429695: grub-efi: key combinations requiring ctrl do not work

2007-06-20 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:39:37PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Package: grub-efi > Version: 1.95+20070604-1 > > > Hi, > > This is a reminder of the bug that upstream also acknowledges, but I > think it needs to be noted down in order to get grub-efi to be usable > in prime-time. > > grub-efi

Grub2 request

2007-06-20 Thread Amin Azez
Grub allows "press any key to continue" on multiple consoles. It would be nice if the text could be specified per-console. I know some serial port based 2 line lcd screens that would want smaller text. Different get-key drivers would be good, these lcd screens have to poll to read keypresses. T

Re: Multiboot overhaul

2007-06-20 Thread Mikhail Vorozhtsov
Marco Gerards wrote: Mikhail Vorozhtsov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, I'm working on a microkernel for x86_64 (with looking forward to ppc64 and sparc64 ports). As you know, microkernels are quite useless without user-space servers that provide "classic" OS services. But microkernels are so