That should be most easy part, about one or two lines... YH
-----Original Message----- From: Ward Vandewege [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 3:25 PM To: Stefan Reinauer Cc: Ronald G Minnich; [email protected]; Lu, Yinghai Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] etherboot/filo + sata startup timing On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 12:21:44AM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > * 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) Can we have SATA support directly in filo? That would simplify things greatly! Ward. -- Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
