From owner-freebsd-small Sun May 24 14:47:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA18277 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Sun, 24 May 1998 14:47:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA18239 for ; Sun, 24 May 1998 14:47:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA07622; Sun, 24 May 1998 23:49:18 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 23:49:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: "Randal S. Masutani" cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Embeded applications? In-Reply-To: <199805222203.MAA07511@oldyeller.comtest.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- abial@nask.pl | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { fetch("http://www.freebsd.org") } Research & Academic | "Be open-minded, but don't let your brains to fall out." Network in Poland | All of the above (and more) is just my personal opinion. --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message