Re: Multiboot2 Suggestions

2010-04-04 Thread Brendan Trotter
Hi, 2010/4/3 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : > Brendan Trotter wrote: >> 1) If GRUB was using a serial port as a console device (e.g. on a >> headless system) it'd be nice if the OS could continue using the same >> serial port with the same configuration instead of resetting the >> serial

Re: Multiboot2 Suggestions

2010-04-04 Thread Bogdan
This thread has the right name so I'll just reply here. 0) It should be specified in Multiboot 2 that Multiboot 1 can optionally be supported by boot loaders when a different magic number is used. 1) The boot loader should calibrate timers that need this. I don't know about other architectures, b

Re: Multiboot2 Suggestions

2010-04-04 Thread richardvo...@gmail.com
>>> 8) Any RAM that is not immediately usable by the OS should not be >>> reported as "usable RAM" in the memory map. An example of this is the >>> "ACPI reclaimable" area (which is RAM that isn't usable until the OS >>> has finished using the ACPI tables). RAM used to store the multi-boot >>> info

Re: [PATCH] Font antialiasing v2

2010-04-04 Thread Evgeny Kolesnikov
On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 22:23 +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > - for (j = font_info->ranges[i * 2]; j <= font_info->ranges[i * 2 + 1]; > - j++) > - add_char (font_info, face, j); > + for (j = font_info->ranges[i * 2]; j <= font_info->ranges[i * 2 +