Hi Ollie,
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Tina Declerck wrote:
- Will it use PCI configuration space to locate the Basic Address
Register
(BAR) to locate bios on a PCI card and load it? Specifically, this is regarding a 3ware
RAID
card.
This is done now in user mode via emulation, for a number of reasons,
and
this emulation will move to linuxbios in a month or so.
That's good to hear. We'd like to do some testing in-house once this is available.
Why do you want to do this ? AFIAK, 3ware one of the few open source friendly vendors, the driver in the kernel can pretty much handle anything.
Thank you. I'm not questioning the functionality of the driver, however, some customers like to configure 3ware RAID using the 3ware bios. If it is called during the system boot the driver isn't involved. This is not taking anything from existing functionality but trying to see if the functions currently available with other BIOSes is or will be available with the Linux BIOS.
Thank you,
Tina
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