On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:15:41AM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
Perhaps my USB code might help in some occasions for scsi.c, I am not completely sure if they are in sync. I sent in the USB code earlier. This code can be committed, although endianess is not handled correctly at all places.
Hi,
Alright then. I just checked in your last USB patch, after reviewing it:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-08/msg00604.html
I agree it's best to commit it. It has a few minor problems, but this is much better than leaving it to bitrot. Then we can work on fixing them more easily.
Let's enumerate them again:
- OHCI works on qemu but hasn't been tested on real hardware.
- --enable-grub-emu-usb isn't yet known to work.
- There might be endianess issues affecting powerpc (note: we aren't building it there yet, we'd have to move PCI support to i386.rmk first)
- A few parts of it are marked "XXX".
I'll add one more to the list: keyboard support wasn't included in this patch. I'll look into your other pieces of code and retrieve a working keyboard driver.
Other than this, massive storage on UHCI should work fine. See http://grub.enbug.org/USBSupport for details on how to use it.