[LinuxBIOS] FILO with the USB

[yhlu]

On Nov 16, 2007 4:42 AM, Fridel Fainshtein <fainshf at gmail.com> wrote:
> Etherboot does not work with gcc 4. At least filo part.
> As I remember, I found a few strange things like
> #if 0 <-- original
> #define isdigit(c)      ((c & 0x04) != 0)
> #define islower(c)      ((c & 0x02) != 0)
> //#define isspace(c)    ((c & 0x20) != 0)
> #define isupper(c)      ((c & 0x01) != 0)
> #else <-- not optimized correction
> #define isdigit(c)      (c >= '0' && c <= '9')
> #define islower(c)      (c >= 'a' && c <= 'z')
> #define isupper(c)      (c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z')
> #endif
>
> These strange things caused FILO in ETHERBOOT not to work.
> I"ve never tested but does FILO in ETHERBOOT work if it is compiled with gcc 3?

the dev environment for that was RHEL 9 on 32bit laptop.
OHCI was working Tyan s2885 or s2880.

what will your application be? why not use tiny kernel + kexec instead?

YH