Polling IDE and CF issue.

Eric W. Biederman ebiederman at lnxi.com
Thu Apr 24 14:23:00 CEST 2003


Richard Smith <rsmith at bitworks.com> writes:

> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> > Adam Agnew <agnew at cs.umd.edu> 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




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