Re: [LinuxBIOS] etherboot/filo + sata startup timing

[Lu, Yinghai]

1. compatiable sata support
2. usb OHCI/EHI storage support
3. zelf format support

YH

-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Reinauer [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 3:22 PM
To: Ronald G Minnich
Cc: Ward Vandewege; [e-mail]; Lu, Yinghai
Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] etherboot/filo + sata startup timing

* Ronald G Minnich  [060425 00:02]:
> this problem goes back to our very first boot some six years ago.

Amazing.
> ATA has outrageous boot delays. I'm sorry to see that SATA has them

too.
> I have no good idea how to fix this, unless we can train FILO to know 
> that we're coming into boot from power on reset.

What's needed here? Just keep on polling until either a couple more
seconds are gone or we finally start seeing the drive?

What features does the etherboot filo have that the official one does
not? I'd like to merge those, as file-pre-0.5 has a lot of interesting 
stuff that never went into etherboot (and etherboot is a pita to build 
compared to filo at least)

Stefan

[LinuxBIOS] etherboot/filo + sata startup timing

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Lu, Yinghai  [060425 00:26]:
> compatiable sata support
> usb OHCI/EHI storage support
> zelf format support

is vga init support still in there as well? From the list above
zelf seems the hardest to implement in Filo, as the etherboot
implementation is kind of nasty...

Stefan