Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 09:33:07 -0800 (PST) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU, peter@bonkers.taronga.com, bde@zeta.org.au, gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Subject: Re: SVNET Meeting? Message-ID: <199503211733.JAA01283@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199503211316.XAA15950@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 21, 95 11:16:25 pm
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> >Oh man.... Hmmm... The firmware is < 2k. Its basically an array of > >byte values that the driver dumps to the card. The current setup > >is the best setup except that it contaminates the GENERIC kernel > >(ie, if someone decides its okay for them to use this driver, it works > >without haveing to do anything special on their part except configure > >for the controller.) If you can think of a way for the driver to > >read in an additional file during boot, then we can distribute the > >firmware separately. > > There will have to be a another stage in the boot for 2.1. This > is not hard to implement, except for the dosboot and possibly the > netboot. The dosboot and the netboot are already out of date. > The netboot lacks support for BIOS drive geometries (which is > essential for correct operation of fdisk and sysinstall) and both > lack support for BIOS memory sizes. Say what ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'
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