Option ROM for Device.

Eric W. Biederman ebiederman at lnxi.com
Wed Aug 6 13:52:00 CEST 2003


ron minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> writes:

> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> 
> > * Eric W. Biederman <ebiederman at lnxi.com> [030806 05:47]:
> > > There are a couple of sides of this.
> > > 1) Anyone who supports Linux on non-x86 generally has a reasonable
> > >    Linux driver that does not need an option rom to set anything up.
> > >    This includes most hardware raid vendors.
> >  
> > Still, this is not always enough. I cursed many times when the x86
> > emulation on Alpha machines was not capable of executing the hacks
> > some vendors put in their option roms, which prevents video or
> > booting from scsi from working.
> 
> yes, although I have always hoped it would be enough to count on
> open-source linux drivers, we still need expansion rom support today.
> There's a cluster at Argonne that needs an old-fashioned BIOS on the nodes
> that have a certain model RAID-SCSI controller. They want linuxbios, and
> we need to do expansion roms first.

Which model RAID-SCSI controller?  I have seen an amazing number that
have worked.  I am wondering if it is simply a misreport.

Eric




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