[OLPC-devel] Re: 2316 revisions

[Jordan Crouse]

On 16/06/06 17:15 -0500, Richard Smith wrote:
> >There is no video BIOS. The current plan (and the way it is working
> >right now) is that the SoftVG VSM does only what setup is needed to
> >allow the FB driver to load. No VESA, no VGA, no VGA BIOS.
> 
> So how is linuxbios going to output anything to the screen?

It won't - thats what the serial line is for.

> If the payload for linuxbios is not Linux then there is some
> bootloader interaction that will happen there (FILO??) but I guess its
> still lights out during that period?

Right now the payload is Linux.  It may not be in the future, but if we
decide to change, the lack of VGA/VESA will weigh heavily in what we
eventually go with.  Its a limitation I'm happy to deal with, and I 
would guess others feel the same way.

Jordan