Re: Polling IDE and CF issue.

Richard Smith  writes:
> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > Adam Agnew  writes:
> > > Sorry I have to ask, but.. which polled ide code are you talking about?
> > > LinuxBIOS native, Etherboot 5.0.6 or Etherboot 5.1.7?
> >
> > Given that the mentioned command does not occur in etherboot
> > 5.1.7 it sounds like the builtin IDE driver.  Richard please
> > try the etherboot one.  Ron was looking at backporting it.
>
> Correct. its the LinuxBIOS native one.
> > There are no magic delay funnies and the code has been tested
> > with quite a few drives.
>
> Ok so that would be go get Etherboot 5.1.7 compile it so it includes IDE right?
> Does the make file create an Elf image or do I have to use mkelfimage?

mkelfImage is not required.

make ide_disk.zelf  
or
make nic1--nic2--nic3--ide_disk.zelf.
It's weird but it allows etherboot to build multiple drivers.

5.1.8 now that it is released is probably better.
I need to see how well make etherboot.zelf and make etherboot-pci.zelf
work.  The first one includes all of the drivers and the second one includes
all of the pci drivers (which should include ide_disk).
> Which mainbord has a good config file example for this?

Basically you just need to use the ELF bootloader.

Eric

Polling IDE and CF issue.

[Richard Smith]

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> make ide_disk.zelf  
> or

Assumint you are in the etherboot-x.x.x/src directory That should be:

make bin/ide_disk.zelf
> make nic1--nic2--nic3--ide_disk.zelf.

Couldn't make this work.  tried "bin/3c509.zelf--ide_disk.zelf" and
"bin/3c509.zelf--bin/ide_disk.zelf"

both yeilded "No rule to make target"
> 5.1.8 now that it is released is probably better.

Thats what I used.
> I need to see how well make etherboot.zelf and make etherboot-pci.zelf

Both bin/etherboot.zelf and bin/etherboot-pci.zelf worked fine.

Polling IDE and CF issue.

Richard Smith  writes:
> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > make ide_disk.zelf  or
>
> Assumint you are in the etherboot-x.x.x/src directory That should be:
>
> make bin/ide_disk.zelf
> > make nic1--nic2--nic3--ide_disk.zelf.
>
> Couldn't make this work.  tried "bin/3c509.zelf--ide_disk.zelf" and
> "bin/3c509.zelf--bin/ide_disk.zelf"
>
> both yeilded "No rule to make target"

The supported target is:
bin/3x509--ide_disk.zelf.
> > 5.1.8 now that it is released is probably better.
>
> Thats what I used.
> > I need to see how well make etherboot.zelf and make etherboot-pci.zelf
>
> Both bin/etherboot.zelf and bin/etherboot-pci.zelf worked fine.

Good.

Eric