-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:03:08 +0200 Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Hi, > > > can somebody tell me if it is possible to integrate an USB kernel > > driver (f. ex. linux-2.6.0\drivers\usb) into GRUB2 to access USB > > devices? > > > > If possible, it would be great if somebody could tell me what basic > > steps I have to do. > > I don't think it is possible. Linux has multitasking, interrupt > handing, a drive framework including the required bus drives, etc. > > For GRUB we have to write our own drivers, I think. And besides that, > I don't think it is nice to maintain the glue code. How about borrowing from etherboot? NIC drivers were borrowed from there in the past - is that (gonna be) the case with v2 as well? Perhaps it would be relevant to share some of their work on getting USB NICs to work as well? - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDVSAin7DbMsAkQLgRAutLAJwP6TOt1IXko+Wwpbgq6JJkWQUcyQCeJbwt c4JSgl+lZlSrIy7CEr7NWeE= =j+0y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel