[OLPC-devel] how to update bios to linuxbios

Jim Gettys jg at laptop.org
Tue Aug 15 20:36:52 EDT 2006


On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 16:47 -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:

> 
> the red hat kernels, at present, don't want to boot under linuxbios, 
> don't know why. I think there is a dependence in their kernels on insyde 
> bios.
> 

Actually, mail earlier today (I forgot who) said likely due to lack of
fbdev driver, something that is in the process of getting fixed.
Clearly, a kernel with vga dependencies is going to have difficulty ;-).
                               - Jim


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