Re: FILO 0.4

[SONE Takeshi]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 09:50:56PM +0800, Andrew Ip wrote:
> > 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?

Yes, X works if VGABIOS is used.
> > 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.

I don't use IRQ. According to the comment in the southbridge code,
it has speed problem when native mode. I took that it does work
in native mode..