Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Oct 2000 23:24:34 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: Device Driver |
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On 15 Oct 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Nobody asked but, HDD solid state devices that could be used for booting > > would require the linking or inclusion of of non-open binaries that must > > be executed once the release of INT13/INT19 are completed from the bios > > bootstrapping. We are looking at something that has to be kick started > > long before execve("/sbin/init"...);system("/sbin/init"); could be > > considered. > > > > Regardless if this is ATA/SCSI..... > > > > I don't understand why you say this... CompactFlash, for example, is a > solid-state HDD device, and it speaks ATA just as well as any disk. > No special binaries required.
This is my point.
www.platypustechnology.com SSD/HDD's require a firmware load to make them become whatever, in this case storage thingy's.
If it was going to be a storage solution, why create something that does not conform to T10/T13 rules. But then we have the beloved MTD's.
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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