On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 09:06:28PM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: > > > Grub2 uses BIOS calls right now for access to disk. Replace > > > this with a driver that accesses ATA disks directly. > > > > _Please_ don't get the one from FILO. > > > > Either grab the one from OpenBIOS or port either ADVDRVR or > > MINDRVR > > Why not FILO's driver?
Because it's a somewhat unreliable patchwork with lots of hacks. (In a bad way.) > Are those other two better in some respect? How/why? The OpenBIOS driver is very nice and neat, but not as featureful as ADVDRVR which even does DMA. > I've seen lots of inline assembly in ADVDRVR upon a quick > investigation. Aha. Maybe MINDRVR is a better fit. It would be interesting to see a feature comparison between the OpenBIOS driver and MINDRVR. > http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracGuide Thanks. //Peter -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
