Re: FILO 0.4

[Andrew Ip]

Hi SONE,
> It can boot distro CDs if you give a proper command line.
> SuSE 8.2 LiveEval CD worked without a glitch, I enjoyed the
> KDE desktop, OpenOffice, etc, from the CD on an EPIA booted
> from LinuxBIOS.

Wonder full.  Does X work?
> PCI support in IDE driver is also added (or recovered), but
> the native PCI mode is not fully tested.
> I tried to configure EPIA (V1) code to use native mode,
> and the ports read something not 0xff, but the drive doesn't
> respond to soft reset.
> I don't know the bug is in FILO, LinuxBIOS, or the hardware.

IIRC, EPIA has to use compatible mode; otherwise, system will
have problem with IRQ.

-Andrew