Re: [lemote] Re: Build farm down / building fuloong farms (was: Re: [loongson-buildfarm] build farm down ?)

[Philippe Vachon]

On 2010-02-15, at 12:35 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:

>    As a side note, I think deblobbing PMON will be fairly simple --
>    just delete the file with the VGA BIOS code in it (vgarom.c in the
>    Bonito directory, under Targets) in it and then disable the config
>    option that enables VGA output (probably commenting out 'select
>    mod_vgacon' in the Bonito config will be enough, but I haven't
>    tried).
> 
> Could someone please explain to me what this implies?
> What does this blob do -- and what will fail to work when it is removed?

In the case of the Fuloong, this would mean that at least PMON's diagnostic 
output would not be visible via a monitor connected to the VGA port. I am 
unsure of the ramifications of this with Linux, for example, as the kernel 
might have code to initialize the device on its own. If not, video might not 
work correctly in Linux.

Cheers,
Phil