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Re: status of GRUB on XO
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Marco Gerards |
Subject: |
Re: status of GRUB on XO |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:52:10 +0100 |
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Robert Millan <address@hidden> writes:
Hi Robert,
> Reporting current status of GRUB on XO:
>
> - Missing some parts of AT keyboard driver (arrows don't work).
Is this a general issue with your driver? For arrow keys you need to
process multiple scancodes, IIRC.
> - Can only access SD cards (via OFW callbacks), in any of the filesystems
> supported by GRUB. Accessing the NAND or USB drives will require adding
> new drivers (I expect the latter will come soon, since it is also needed
> on i386-pc).
What kind of interface does the NAND drive have? ATA? ;-)
> - Supports serial terminal (I couldn't try this on real hardware, but I
> assume it works).
So this is not an issue now?
> - Loader only supports Multiboot2 images for now.
There are multiboot kernels already? :-)
It would be nice if something like Xen will be converted to
multiboot2.
--
Marco