On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 12:53:33PM -0500, Shadow Daemon wrote:
> > > >1) Does ELKS support Micro-channel
> >
> > No.
> >
> > > >2) If no are there any plans to support Micro Channel on ELKS
> >
> > Not at the moment. If you would like to contribute the code I would be happy
> > to incorporate it, and help get it working.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't doing everything through the bios
> (referencing /dev/bd* instead of /dev/hd*) alleviate the need for separate
> micro channel code? I understand that there can be a performance loss
> doing it that way, and if the bios is messed up, there wouldn't be any way
> of using the system. But are there any other problems, assuming working
> bios and decent performance?
Yes, it is perfectly possible to get ELKS to boot on a microchannel machine
using the BIOS drivers. I used such a machine for a while. On the other
hand it is perhaps going to be hard to get other drivers working as most
of the rest of the drivers do not use the BIOS totally.
To be honest I know very little about MCA, other than that it deals with
resource allocation automatically.
>
> I too am interested in getting ELKS running on microchannel machines...and
> thus far, I've been able to boot and to get elks to SEE the microchannel
> hard drive as /dev/bda, but that is all.
>
Do you know anything about the technical details of how it works?
Could you write any code to support it explicitly?
Al
