Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 23:49:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: "Randal S. Masutani" <randal@comtest.com> Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Embeded applications? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980524234319.4089B-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <199805222203.MAA07511@oldyeller.comtest.com>
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On Fri, 22 May 1998, Randal S. Masutani wrote:
> No, no ... sorry if I was not clear with my statements above.
>
> Let me clarify myself. There are two major ways that manufactures
> implement access to Flash memory devices, Software or Hardware emulation.
[snip]
Ahh, well... Yes, I misunderstood you - throw out most of my ramblings...
> I will try using the rawboot, since I do not need FFS. Technically I do not
> have access to FFS anyway as explained above, since I am using software BIOS
> flash drive.
>From your description, I think rawboot does what you want - it pulls data
block by block using BIOS INT 13.
> NOTE: FYI, "FFS" acronyms is used in two ways.
> In FreeBSD FFS stands for Fast File System.
> In the PC/104 industry FFS stands for Flash File System.
> It can get confusing at times... :)
Yes... But both meanings are too heavily used to even propose a change, so
we must live with it (and be confused at times :)
Andrzej Bialecki
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