On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 07:53:33PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote:
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 07:37:34AM -0000, LinuxBIOS wrote:
Grub2 uses BIOS calls right now for access to disk. Replace this with a driver that accesses ATA disks directly.
_Please_ don't get the one from FILO.
Either grab the one from OpenBIOS or port either ADVDRVR or MINDRVR
Why not FILO's driver? Are those other two better in some respect? How/why?
I've seen lots of inline assembly in ADVDRVR upon a quick investigation.
written by Hale Landis, they're both in the public domain and available from http://ata-atapi.com/
(How does this thing work to get trac to put emails as ticket comments? trac docs anywhere?)
Doesn't work. It works the other way around, though. If you post comments to the trac issue, they'll be (automatically) posted on the list, too.
http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracGuide
Uwe.