Coquelicot wrote:
On Nov 21, 2007 7:46 PM, Uwe Hermann uwe@hermann-uwe.de wrote:
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 08:00:14PM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote:
On 11/20/07, Coquelicot coquelicot408@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
what can be responsible for long delay before starting LinuxBIOS? I have it on VIA EPIA M-II with LB preppended by original VGA bios extracted from the original BIOS. The delay is ~20 seconds before I get first message on serial console (..."In auto.c:main()" messages).
Correct me if I am wrong: do I need VGA BIOS at all? I want my booting
No. On a head-less server for example, you usually don't care about VGA, and you can easily leave it away (no VGA blob to prepend to linuxbios.rom).
Disable VGA support in LinuxBIOS with CONFIG_CONSOLE_VGA=0 in Options.lb.
What about a carputer which need to be able to display graphics (X or DirectFB)? can I skip the VGA bios in such setup altogether? I'm talking about VIA EPIA M-II so I am not sure if two LB "drivers" you mention below (RageXL and GeoDE) can work?
Have a look the unichrome driver: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bios/20954
I can't believe I forgot about this! But anyways, as I said, I don't think a vga bios could affect the early serial portion of LinuxBIOS, it just doesn't make sense.
-Corey