RE: boot(8) for bebox

On 03-Apr-2008 KIYOHARA Takashi wrote:
> I will split boot(8) of bebox into boot and boot_com0 now, I am trying.
>=20
> However, I had forgotten CONS_BE existed in bebox.  It is necessary to
> depend on the VGA card in bebox, and to be booted by either of CONS_VGA
> or CONS_BE.
>=20
> I have not understood yet, and when BootROM of BeBox displays on the
> screen maybe as "Be", I think that it boots with CONS_BE.

What is cons_be?  Is that more like a framebuffer console?  I got rid of =
the
prep framebuffer console, as it was in really bad shape (looked like it w=
as
copied from bebox).  What I really want to see some day in the future is =
libsa
containing enough rasops code so that a proper genfb driver can be writte=
n
inside a bootloader, and we use that instead.

> Is boot_be necessary for us?
> Or, do boot support both CONS_VGA and CONS_BE, and do it correspond wit=
h
> Vendor/Product ID of VGA?

If you can somehow boot the machine and generate text output on the conso=
le,
I'd just get rid of it.  The only reason to keep it would be if there was=
 no
other way to get console output.

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