1. compatiable sata support 2. usb OHCI/EHI storage support 3. zelf format support
YH -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Reinauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 3:22 PM To: Ronald G Minnich Cc: Ward Vandewege; [email protected]; Lu, Yinghai Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] etherboot/filo + sata startup timing * Ronald G Minnich <[email protected]> [060425 00:02]: > this problem goes back to our very first boot some six years ago. Amazing. > > ATA has outrageous boot delays. I'm sorry to see that SATA has them too. > I have no good idea how to fix this, unless we can train FILO to know > that we're coming into boot from power on reset. What's needed here? Just keep on polling until either a couple more seconds are gone or we finally start seeing the drive? What features does the etherboot filo have that the official one does not? I'd like to merge those, as file-pre-0.5 has a lot of interesting stuff that never went into etherboot (and etherboot is a pita to build compared to filo at least) Stefan -- coresystems GmbH * Brahmsstr. 16 * D-79104 Freiburg i. Br. Tel.: +49 761 7668825 * Fax: +49 761 7664613 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.coresystems.de/ -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
