Does linux kernel parse linuxbios table?

Stefan Reinauer stepan at openbios.org
Fri Jan 14 05:00:01 CET 2005


* Eric W. Biederman <ebiederman at lnxi.com> [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



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