ron minnich rminnich@lanl.gov writes:
On 15 Apr 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Steve Gehlbach steve@nexpath.com writes:
What about the alternative floppy/ide routines?
Given that there are several types of rom chips we will need to continue to support several types of loaders, not just loading from a classic x86 rom chip. I think the floppy/ide routines may be a bit of unnecessary but there is no real impact on the rest of the code base.
I think there is going to be continued use of the ide/floppy stuff without etherboot. I have requests for that all the time. It's going to have to stay.
That is fine. As long as we can keep the restriction on only one compiled into the code.
Beyond the infrastructure level I really don't care.
I support only loading elfboot images from linuxbios. It just makes too much sense.
Eric