How does linuxbios handle add-in cards that may need special boot-roms like the promise raid controllers, if I am going to startup from one?
This isn't my area of expertise, but you might want to look into YhLu's work on the Tyan mainboards concerning the Silicon Image serial ATA controller.
This has been a problem for a long time with things like SCSI controllers as well.
On Wed, 26 May 2004, Jacob Alifrangis (LISTS) wrote:
How does linuxbios handle add-in cards that may need special boot-roms like the promise raid controllers, if I am going to startup from one?
On Wed, 26 May 2004, Hendricks David W. wrote:
This has been a problem for a long time with things like SCSI controllers as well.
yes, in private email I told Jacob that the eventual long term goal is that linux is in flash and we get all the power of linux to handle this problem.
There's a general problem here for add-ins. We can't simply have ever module in kernel to support every card. This problem will get harder.
ron
I heard you the first 1000+ times you said it :-)
Let Linux do it!
On Wed, 26 May 2004, ron minnich wrote:
yes, in private email I told Jacob that the eventual long term goal is that linux is in flash and we get all the power of linux to handle this problem.
On Wed, 26 May 2004, Jacob Alifrangis (LISTS) wrote:
How does linuxbios handle add-in cards that may need special boot-roms like the promise raid controllers, if I am going to startup from one?
we don't yet. We may in future handle it but have avoided it.
Personally, I think this is a kernel issue but others may disagree.
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