Does linux kernel parse linuxbios table?

[Liu Tao]

Hello Eric,

I searched the linux kernel mail archive and found your
patch for x86 boot linuxbios support, but I didn't find the
linuxbios table parse code in linux-2.6.8.1, does linux kernel
still parse the linuxbios table now?

Regards,
Liu Tao

Liu Tao  writes:
> Hello Eric,
>
> I searched the linux kernel mail archive and found your
> patch for x86 boot linuxbios support, but I didn't find the
> linuxbios table parse code in linux-2.6.8.1, does linux kernel
> still parse the linuxbios table now?

Not currently.  When I originally introduced the table I could not
get my patch in.  At the moment mkelfImage just digest the table
and feeds Linux what it is expecting.

A bit of hack but a pragmatic solution for now.

Eric

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Eric W. Biederman  [041021 12:52]:
> > Hello Eric,
> >
> > I searched the linux kernel mail archive and found your
> > patch for x86 boot linuxbios support, but I didn't find the
> > linuxbios table parse code in linux-2.6.8.1, does linux kernel
> > still parse the linuxbios table now?
>
> Not currently.  When I originally introduced the table I could not
> get my patch in.  At the moment mkelfImage just digest the table
> and feeds Linux what it is expecting.

Any endeavor to walk on the linux+lbtable path? Now that x86emu is
working it would be very nice to store things like framebuffer address
and resolution/depth in the lbtable as well..

Stefan