open development branch of filo. filo-0.5 is frozen (and obsolete)

[Joseph Smith]

open development branch of filo. filo-0.5 is frozen (and obsolete)

What is this all about???

[Stefan Reinauer]

Joseph Smith wrote:
> open development branch of filo. filo-0.5 is frozen (and obsolete)

It means we started putting FILO into maintained mode again, cleaning it
up and moving it towards an 1.0 release.

The general idea is to make the code compact and simple and get rid of
the "grabbed and plugged together" nature of the FILO source code.

Some of the new features:

- Kconfig based configuration (make menuconfig)
- uses libpayload now, which allowed to drop quite some license
header-less files (including a working USB/UHCI stack)
- Windows CE support (Thanks, Artec!)
- many small and not so small bug fixes

Some of the planned features:

- drop reliance on grub console code, use libpayload's tinycurses instead.
- simple driver concept to allow plug-in boot device drivers without
changing 10 different places in the code
- merge Peter Stuge's multi block read patches

HTH,
Stefan

[Joseph Smith]

On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:31:42 +0200, Stefan Reinauer 
wrote:
> Joseph Smith wrote:
> > open development branch of filo. filo-0.5 is frozen (and obsolete)
>
> It means we started putting FILO into maintained mode again, cleaning it
> up and moving it towards an 1.0 release.
>
> The general idea is to make the code compact and simple and get rid of
> the "grabbed and plugged together" nature of the FILO source code.
>
> Some of the new features:
> Kconfig based configuration (make menuconfig)
> uses libpayload now, which allowed to drop quite some license
>
> header-less files (including a working USB/UHCI stack)
> Windows CE support (Thanks, Artec!)
> many small and not so small bug fixes
>
> Some of the planned features:
> drop reliance on grub console code, use libpayload's tinycurses

instead.
> simple driver concept to allow plug-in boot device drivers without
>
> changing 10 different places in the code
> merge Peter Stuge's multi block read patches

Excellent:-) I'm really looking forward to this.
Is this new code in an svn tree somewhere? I would really like to check out
the code and maybe contribute.

open development branch of filo. filo-0.5 is frozen (and obsolete)

[Stefan Reinauer]

Yes it's all in the filo repository. See http://coreboot.org/FILO

Stefan

On 09.09.2008, at 12:17, Joseph Smith  wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:31:42 +0200, Stefan Reinauer <[e-mail]
> >
>
> wrote:
> > Joseph Smith wrote:
> > > open development branch of filo. filo-0.5 is frozen (and obsolete)
> >
> > It means we started putting FILO into maintained mode again,  
> > cleaning it
> > up and moving it towards an 1.0 release.
> >
> > The general idea is to make the code compact and simple and get rid  
> > of
> > the "grabbed and plugged together" nature of the FILO source code.
> >
> > Some of the new features:
> > Kconfig based configuration (make menuconfig)
> > uses libpayload now, which allowed to drop quite some license
> >
> > header-less files (including a working USB/UHCI stack)
> > Windows CE support (Thanks, Artec!)
> > many small and not so small bug fixes
> >
> > Some of the planned features:
> > drop reliance on grub console code, use libpayload's tinycurses
>
> instead.
> > simple driver concept to allow plug-in boot device drivers without
> >
> > changing 10 different places in the code
> > merge Peter Stuge's multi block read patches
>
> Excellent:-) I'm really looking forward to this.
> Is this new code in an svn tree somewhere? I would really like to  
> check out
> the code and maybe contribute.