Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] x86 BIOS Enhanced Disk Device (EDD) polling | Date | Wed, 4 Sep 2002 01:29:37 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 04 September 2002 00:05, Matt Domsch wrote: > > [...] > > EDD works by providing the bus (PCI, PCI-X, ISA, InfiniBand, PCI > Express, or HyperTransport) location (e.g. PCI 02:01.0) and interface > (ATAPI, ATA, SCSI, USB, 1394, FibreChannel, I2O, RAID, SATA) location > (e.g. SCSI ID 5 LUN 0) information for each BIOS int13 device. The > patch below creates CONFIG_EDD, that when defined, makes the calls to > retrieve and store this information. It then exports it (yes, another > /proc, glad to change it to driverfs or whatever else when that makes > sense) in /proc/edd/{bios-device-number}, as such: > > [...] > > > Feedback appreciated.
How about providing an example of how you'd export the root via driverfs, with a view to educating those of us who are still don't have much of a clue how driverfs fits in with big picture?
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