[LinuxBIOS] patch: filo

[ron minnich]

A more formal patch; can someone test?

ron

[Stefan Reinauer]

* ron minnich  [071002 21:18]:
> This code is originally from Nikolay Petukhov  with one minor change
> from me. It enables the option of having only slaves on ide, such as the CF found on the msm800sev.
>
> This code has been tested on the msm800sev with one master, master and slave, and only slave
> and works. I'd like to see some other tests before we commit. IDE is touchy.
> Signed-off-by: Ronald G. Minnich

r38.

We should also get Peter's speedup patch in. Which is the latest version
of that one?

Also, the direction should be to go towards grub2 as payload and let
filo die.

[Peter Stuge]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 08:14:19AM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> We should also get Peter's speedup patch in.

Maybe, but note that it does introduce at least one new bugs where
FILO is unable to load more than one file. (Ie when using an initrd
it often fails.)

I thought this was because I broke the simple yet effective caching
system in FILO's block layer, but I looked it over and it did seem
OK. I have not had time to investigate further.

Furthermore I think the patch still hoses FILO in VMware.
> Which is the latest version of that one?

6, but I don't want to sign it off until those two issues are fixed.
If anyone feels like helping out, please do.

//Peter