ron minnich rminnich@lanl.gov writes:
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
- Eric W. Biederman ebiederman@lnxi.com [030806 05:47]:
There are a couple of sides of this.
- Anyone who supports Linux on non-x86 generally has a reasonable Linux driver that does not need an option rom to set anything up. This includes most hardware raid vendors.
Still, this is not always enough. I cursed many times when the x86 emulation on Alpha machines was not capable of executing the hacks some vendors put in their option roms, which prevents video or booting from scsi from working.
yes, although I have always hoped it would be enough to count on open-source linux drivers, we still need expansion rom support today. There's a cluster at Argonne that needs an old-fashioned BIOS on the nodes that have a certain model RAID-SCSI controller. They want linuxbios, and we need to do expansion roms first.
Which model RAID-SCSI controller? I have seen an amazing number that have worked. I am wondering if it is simply a misreport.
Eric