[OLPC-devel] Re: how to update bios to linuxbios

[Jim Gettys]

Nothing...  But if you try to kexec a kernel that has Vesa dependencies
on LinuxBIOS, you'll lose.  The point is that we have to have Fedora
using fbdev in order to successfully boot on LinuxBIOS.  The fix is just
to get Fedora on OLPC to use fbdev.
                                            - Jim


On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 08:26 -0600, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> On 15/08/06 20:36 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> > 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 ;-).
> 
> Eh?  Whats wrong with the fbdev driver?
> 
> Jordan
> 
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Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child