On Feb 11, 2013, at 11:43 AM, "David F." <df7...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Andrew Fish <af...@apple.com> wrote: >> Do people still use floppy disks? CD/DVD/BD are becoming less popular.... > > Yes, all that is used. I really think there should have been a common > generic device type (Scsi limited to 0x1F-1 devices and has been > enough (not really that many, a device that is attachable or not, a > device who's media is removable or part of the device, having up to 4 > billion device "types" would have more than been enough - could have > been registered/listed in the UEFI spec). Well we did not want to make up yet another namespace. Seems like the kind of thing you want is mostly owned by DMTF these days. Things like CIM and SMBIOS. We are trying to stay out of the Ralf Brown business. > I see Michale has a work > around, but you really can't see the device "type" without having to > send low level commands to the device on a bus. May be nice to have > one more attribute magnetic, optical or electronic media. Something > like a UDF may be partitioned or may not be. Also what about DVD > writers with packet formatted media, is that still read-only? Your making it too complicated. Block IO either works or it does not and that is what Block IO describes. Thanks, Andrew Fish ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/edk2-devel
