Peter Stuge wrote: > Here are the threads from when I was working on this: > > Thanks for the pointers. My initial plan had been to just use the card in IDE mode, since I don't really need the hotplug support for my application. I do need pcmcia support though for a wlan card, so I was a bit worried about how that interaction would go. I hadn't considered trying to access the card in pcmcia mode - that seems like it should Just Work. > Re long cycles, I suggest using an Etherboot payload. You can even > send FILO as a boot image to Etherboot, and experimenting with kernel > parameters becomes simple. > Hmm.. I'm not sure I can use Etherboot for this FILO problem - if it's the PCI config that wipes out the PCMCIA bridge config set up by linuxbios, won't Etherboot also wipe the bridge config when it sets up the bus to talk to the NIC, leaving FILO unable to see the CF (regardless of the SUPPORT_PCI setting)?
To be sure, Etherboot will likely be useful when I get to building a kernel/initramfs. FILO booting Etherboot would be particularly interesting to me, assuming I'm right about Etherboot booting FILO above. Thanks, John -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
