Re: My Summer of Code Project

2007-04-24 Thread Andrei E. Warkentin
I think it's safe to say that IDE is pretty much the same anywhere on PowerPC there is no dedicated PIO address space, so the IDE registers are memory mapped someplace (so don't forget to eieio) (read PCI BARs or interpret device tree?). Andrei Evgenievich Warkentin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ce

Re: My Summer of Code Project

2007-04-24 Thread Alex Roman
Interesting piece of code... Yet another example of showing how to implement an ATA/IDE controller driver :) Right now I'm pondering whether it is worth implementing a BIOS calls CDROM boot support, or whether I should just go right ahead and do it all with the ATA controller. I'm not sure how I

Re: My Summer of Code Project

2007-04-24 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Devils-Hawk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070424 22:06]: > You should probably have a look at http://www.linuxbios.org/FILO maybe > you can salvage something. FILO supports booting from ElTorito bootable > CD media, uses 32-bit mode, and it is free of bios calls. Unfortunately > its x86 only, although som

Re: My Summer of Code Project

2007-04-24 Thread Devils-Hawk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 You should probably have a look at http://www.linuxbios.org/FILO maybe you can salvage something. FILO supports booting from ElTorito bootable CD media, uses 32-bit mode, and it is free of bios calls. Unfortunately its x86 only, although some work ha