The filo is merged into Etherboot. And it will be released in 5.2.6 formally I guess.
Regards
YH
-----Original Message----- From: Li-Ta Lo [mailto:ollie@lanl.gov] Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 3:05 PM To: Ronald G. Minnich Cc: LinuxBIOS Subject: Re: FILO fixups
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 15:59, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
I've just finished fixups to filo that make it quite a bit faster.
First, it used to scan the bus twice, the first time to do a count. That's
slow, although it was a nice algorithm. But it only needed to find at most
2 devices.
Since it appears nobody is maintaining FILO do you think we should put it in util directory in freebios2?
Ollie
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On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, YhLu wrote:
The filo is merged into Etherboot. And it will be released in 5.2.6 formally I guess.
that's a plus and a minus for us. It's nice seeing FILO get pulled into supported software like Etherboot. But we've had uneven luck building a working etherboot here. And ETherboot still does far more than we want.
I would need to put the same kinds of mods into etherboot, and then build etherboot in a way in which all the ethernet support is not compiled in. In other words, I want to compile an etherboot down to FILO!
It is simpler to just use FILO directly.
ron
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