* Eric W. Biederman ebiederman@lnxi.com [040413 14:40]:
What is the right way of getting this code into a LinuxBIOS build? Should there be some "driver" directive like there's "northbridge" and "southbridge"? Or is there some better idea?
Use the dir command. northbridge/southbridge/etc are just specializations of it.
Ah, right!
If we can now get hands on loading firmware into the LSI1020/1030, we'd be prepared for a lot of nice opteron servers and possibly many others.
The Linux driver does not load the firmware? Or do we need SCSI support?
The Linux driver does not load the firmware at the moment. The Linux driver just bails out without being able to load anything from disk. Otoh, it's kind of crucial to boot off SCSI drives in future. Since the LSI10[2|3]0 is pretty wide spread among opteron systems, it would give us a pretty good start.
Stefan