[olpc-software] Which BIOS will OLPC have ?

[Ronald G Minnich]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 11:11:59PM -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> 
>>Not clear how large off screen memory we want to dedicate.  I expect we
>>may want to do some tuning here, once we have some experience.
>>
>>The geode graphics can only touch stuff inside the window; but memory to
>>memory copies aren't that expensive, so I'm not convinced that we'll
>>want to dedicate the full 16Mb.
> 
> 
> That isn't the problem. That driver just assumes a BIOS setup, BIOS firmware,
> BIOS emulated video PCI port (at least on the stuff here it is emulated, there
> is no real PCI device it is talking to), memory layout, PLL setup, video 
> layout etc.

And all I'm saying is that we can fix that. First, though, I want to be 
booting a linuxbios-based kernel, and then kexec a test kernel with the 
fbdev driver.

ron