On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 05:55:14PM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wilko Bulte writes:
: Is it possible to have something like the 'camcontrol rescan' that
: the SCSI CAM subsystem has?
NO. These cards are not hot pluggable. I've blown out two IDE
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On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 07:24:06PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Luigi Rizzo writes:
: i actually wonder, aren't there removable disk frames which support
: hot swap (by turning off power with the keylock, or the like) ?
I've not seen any, but I suppose they exist.
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wilko Bulte writes:
: Thanks for all the input :-) I will stop my hot-swap experiments here and
: now. To think that a few stupid TTL buffer chips would have made it
: possible to hotswap :-(
The design is such that that might be difficult When a CF card is
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 02:36:36AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wilko Bulte writes:
: Thanks for all the input :-) I will stop my hot-swap experiments here and
: now. To think that a few stupid TTL buffer chips would have made it
: possible to hotswap :-(
The
+ put some conditional-compilation code in boot1.s
+ have a separate file, say bootrom.s, maybe in the same directory
as the existing boot1
+ pass the modified code to the etherboot people so they can include
in their source tree.
in all sincerity i'd love to have
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Luigi Rizzo writes:
: If we had it, we could just 'dd' the boot code and the kernel onto
: a compactflash and boot from it without having to worry about
: creating a filesystem.
We'd also be able to load the kernel out of ROM :-)
Warner
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Luigi Rizzo writes:
: If we had it, we could just 'dd' the boot code and the kernel onto
: a compactflash and boot from it without having to worry about
: creating a filesystem.
We'd also be able to load the kernel out of ROM :-)
the whole issue is the size of
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Luigi Rizzo writes:
: We'd also be able to load the kernel out of ROM :-)
:
: the whole issue is the size of the ROM isn't it ?
Yes. I saw a few datasheets for embedded systems that have 2M or 4M
of flash. Some of that is for the BIOS, but part of it can be used
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Luigi Rizzo wrote:
+ put some conditional-compilation code in boot1.s
+ have a separate file, say bootrom.s, maybe in the same directory
as the existing boot1
+ pass the modified code to the etherboot people so they can include
in their source tree.
in all
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writ
es:
Hi,
I'm writing a character device driver in which each minor device can be
opened more than once. When a device is opened is there a way to associate
some private data for each opened instance ?
As other people have noted, not in the
Luigi Rizzo wrote:
+ put some conditional-compilation code in boot1.s
+ have a separate file, say bootrom.s, maybe in the same directory
as the existing boot1
+ pass the modified code to the etherboot people so they can include
in their source tree.
in all
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Drew Eckhardt wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writ
es:
Hi,
I'm writing a character device driver in which each minor device can be
opened more than once. When a device is opened is there a way to associate
some private data for each opened
I would really like to verify whether or not my 3dfx driver works properly
with the older Voodoo Graphics cards. Would it be possible for someone with
-CURRENT to test this out for me, or anyone to loan me one of these cards for
testing. I'd just like to clase that up and make sure it works for
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