[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS with X Server Inside

[Alan Carvalho de Assis]

Hi guys,

there is LinuxBIOS running with graphic mode:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuzRsXKm_NQ

Thanks my friends Marcelo Barros and Fred Schaf to make the video.

Dave, I will supply the video in ogg theora with better resolution after.

I hope everybody enjoy it.

Best regards,

Alan

[Uwe Hermann]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 08:57:00AM -0300, Alan Carvalho de Assis wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> there is LinuxBIOS running with graphic mode:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuzRsXKm_NQ
>
> Thanks my friends Marcelo Barros and Fred Schaf to make the video.

Great stuff, thanks a lot!

I've added a link to the video as well as a few screenshots to
http://linuxbios.org/Screenshots

Can you write up a small HOWTO for the wiki? That would be great!

Cheers, Uwe.

[Alan Carvalho de Assis]

Hi Uwe,

2007/3/6, Uwe Hermann :
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 08:57:00AM -0300, Alan Carvalho de Assis wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > there is LinuxBIOS running with graphic mode:
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuzRsXKm_NQ
> >
> > Thanks my friends Marcelo Barros and Fred Schaf to make the video.
>
> Great stuff, thanks a lot!

Thank you.
> I've added a link to the video as well as a few screenshots to
> http://linuxbios.org/Screenshots

I'm feel happy to divulge LinuxBIOS.
> Can you write up a small HOWTO for the wiki? That would be great!

I am doing a HOWTO at
http://www.linuxabordo.com.br/wiki/index.php?title=LinuxBIOS_Graphical
when I finish it we can move it to LinuxBios.org
> Cheers, Uwe.

Best regards,

Alan

[ron minnich]

WOW! You made my day with this one!

OK, linuxbios community, here's a challenge: it's 6 seconds to busybox
prompt. Where is the time going? And, how do we get it to 2 seconds?
What would it take? It would be interesting to see.

Alan, what tools did you use to build the flash image?

And, congratulations again. Great stuff.

thanks

ron

[Peter Stuge]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 06:59:40PM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> WOW! You made my day with this one!

Yep - nice video!
> OK, linuxbios community, here's a challenge: it's 6 seconds to
> busybox prompt. Where is the time going? And, how do we get it
> to 2 seconds? What would it take? It would be interesting to see.

VGA BIOS I bet. We want that OpenGraphics card. :)

//Peter

[Alan Carvalho de Assis]

Hi Ron,

2007/3/6, ron minnich :
> WOW! You made my day with this one!

And you made my day developing it ;-)
> OK, linuxbios community, here's a challenge: it's 6 seconds to busybox
> prompt. Where is the time going? And, how do we get it to 2 seconds?
> What would it take? It would be interesting to see.

I have some ideas to improve speed. Currrently I am using VGA ROM to
initialize the video card, but the vm86 emulator lost a lot of time
executing it. This mainboard (Tyan s2850) have an ATI Rage XL and
LinuxBIOS supports it.
My idea is to use the native driver to initialize the video card and
LinuxBIOS will just copy VGA ROM to C000:0000 without execute it (it
is necessary because Xvesa need VGA routines).
> Alan, what tools did you use to build the flash image?

Ron, I do everything manually. But my next work will be integrate it
with buildrom (used in OLPC) to simplify the work to other peoples.
> And, congratulations again. Great stuff.

Thank you very much.
> thanks

Cheers,
> ron

Alan

[Alan Carvalho de Assis]

Hi,

2007/3/6, Alan Carvalho de Assis :
> Dave, I will supply the video in ogg theora with better resolution after.

the video with better quality can be download in ogg theora format here:

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/fornix/linuxbios.ogg

Cheers,

Alan