On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Tarl Neustaedter wrote: > One benefit we're hoping for is to not have to write multiple drivers > every time we go to a new technology (e.g., infiniband). Right now, > we're facing the possibility of needing to write a Solaris driver, a > Linux driver, an IEEE-1275 FCode driver, and a real-mode BIOS driver. > All for one technology, and with the probability of having to repeat for > the next i/o technology to come along, since we are going forward with > both SPARC and Opteron-based systems.
> With LinuxBIOS, it looks like it should be possible to re-use the Linux > driver in the PROM. If so, it would mean that a new platform based on a > particular i/o technology could contain the drivers for that particular > technology (e.g., for Infiniband, IPoIB and SRP drivers), and not have > to worry about option ROMs. You've just described the entire case for linuxbios we started with years ago :-) So I am very happy to see it might make some sense :-) > I can believe it. My task right now is to determine if LinuxBIOS > is feasible, and if so, at what size. We have some flexibility in that > we design our own boards, so if we can justify a large PROM, we > could get it in. Better if we can fit it in a 1MB prom, however. ow. ow. ow. Not with Infiniband, at least not yet ... Is the price difference really that big? ron _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
