On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > * Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [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. ron _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
