Interesting HOWTO

[Steven James]

Greetings,

I agree. The loader I wrote is really just a quick and dirty way to
exercize the code for testing.

It souuldn't be too painful to link it in to other loaders and call the
ll_read_block function.

block_fill_inbuf.c best demonstrates the interface to the USB stack.
init_bytes() shows getting the bus enumerated and finding an appropriate
boot device and usb_read() shows grabbing the blocks.

Really, it's just a matter of calling usb_poll(0 in a loop until you see a
device you want or it quits finding new devices. usb_poll just checks all
known hubs for connect events and enumerates the device that was
connected. It returns 1 if it processed an event, 0 for no events and -1
for an error (retryable).

G'day,
sjames


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On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Peter Lister wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 16:24, Steven James wrote:
>
> > So far, it only supports uhci, but successfully enumerates the bus and
> > loads an ELF image from some USB drives (It loads from the ones I have
> > anyway).
>
> Congratulations. This is very valuable work. I'll have a look when I can
> get SF to let me cvs update...
>
> But my immediate comment is that this code should be available to
> Etherboot, FILO and anything else which needs to pull an image from a
> USB device without the help of a legacy BIOS.
>
>