[OLPC-devel] Re: AMD Geode GX framebuffer: support OLPC

[Ronald G Minnich]

ollie wrote:

> 
> Why do we have to do that? These parameters were never set for any of
> the previous LinuxBIOS platforms with VGA support. Does the GX2 
> framebuffer driver require it?
> 
> The code in arch/i386/boot is for old fashion bootloaders like LILO/GRUB
> and to make Linux kernel a boot floppy disk. On LinuxBIOS platforms 
> with Etherboot or FILO, they are not even in the image.

ok, so I guess I'm also not sure what's needed here. We have not set 
this stuff up in years, IIRC.

ron