[PROPOSAL] extended payload handling

[Hendricks David W.]

IIRC, that's what Greg's addition of FILO for PPC was all about.

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Frank wrote:

> Finally, someone has recognized the lack of support with
> LinuxBios. About 6 months ago we decide to do an x86 based
> project but abandoned it because of the lack of support for this
> bootloader. The code is disorganized and in disarray as far as
> I'm concerend. We were on a tight schedule and didn't have the
> luxury of spending a lot of time trying to understand the code
> layout. This was due in part to the lack of badly needed
> documentation and code organization. We decided to base our
> design on a powerpc and go with u-boot.
> Hopefully by the time we decide to do cost reduced version,
> LinuxBios will be usable for the masses and not just for an
> elite group of people who assume everybody else uses the x86 for
> everyday use.:-(
> 
> --- Greg Watson <gwatson at lanl.gov> wrote:
> > 
> > On Jun 8, 2004, at 7:59 AM, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > 
> > > * Greg Watson <gwatson at lanl.gov> [040608 15:22]:
> > >> I think this is a reasonable idea, particularly your
> > suggestion of
> > >> making linuxbios more modular. One of my main beefs with
> > the payload
> > >> strategy is that each payload has to provide it's own set
> > of,
> > >> potentially buggy, driver code. If we have 5 payloads then
> > we have 5
> > >> sets of drivers that all do the same thing slightly
> > differently. If 
> > >> the
> > >> drivers were modular enough so that a payload could call
> > them 
> > >> directly,
> > >> then this would go a long way to addressing these concerns.
> > >
> > > As far as I can tell the only drivers involved would be
> > output drivers,
> > > ie. video output and serial output. There the extensible
> > LinuxBIOS 
> > > table
> > > could come into play. The video driver could store a pointer
> > to the
> > > framebuffer, the resolution and maybe even a font, to save
> > duplicates.
> > > Serial is only a kilobyte or so of a driver i think.
> > >
> > > Have I forgotten something?
> > >
> > 
> > PCI device code and resource information should be available
> > for 
> > payloads to use. A payload should not have to re-probe for
> > devices on 
> > the PCI bus.
> > 
> > Greg
> > 
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