Re: Booting Patch
Daryl Moulder wrote:
>
> Would it be possible to get the booting patch mentioned in this slashdot
> article
>
> http://slashdot.org/articles/01/01/04/1336222.shtml
>
> Direct Link :
>
> http://lpp.FreeLords.org/
>
> If it has anything to do with the pc bios probably not but if it just uses
> the frambuffer loading mechanism which ppc has always used to emulate a
> console screen then it should work.
The patch applies cleanly, but it looks like it only works with vesafb, which
we don't have. Why it should need that is beyond me so I suggest you bug the
author(s) about it. :)
Michel
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast
Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project
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