Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

yhlu yinghailu at gmail.com
Tue Mar 8 12:54:00 CET 2005


So need to make shadowing work in V2 before make ADLO working...?

which region?

YH



On 07 Mar 2005 21:34:35 -0700, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederman at lnxi.com> wrote:
> Richard Smith <smithbone at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:37:31 -0600, Bari Ari <bari at onelabs.com> wrote:
> >
> > > http://wiki.linuxbios.org/ADLO
> > >
> >
> > That info is all from my V1 stuff  and ADLO is not in V2 yet.  However
> > its just a elf payload just like anything else so it will load fine.
> > It won't run until you get the shadowing right.
> >
> > I don't remember what the final result of our V2 shadowing discussion
> > was.  I seem to remember that we thought we could do an elf location
> > trick that might make the mainboard specific shadowing in ADLO
> > unnecessary.
> 
> Right.  We should simply need to enable the shadow memory in V2.
> ADLO can take it from there.  We can reexamine if we ever find
> memory that has a problem being read-write.
> 
> It is weird that ADLO loads in one place and runs in another but
> that is largely a non-issue.  We need the a loader that runs
> in protected mode.  So whatever I was thinking with ELF tricks
> is something we can ignore.
> 
> Eric
> 
>



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