Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Total And Complete Wackyness | Date | Sat, 12 Feb 2000 11:07:05 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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orc@pell.portland.or.us (david parsons) said: > In article <linux.kernel.880b2g$ani$1@node.matrix.fire>, > <jmcmullan@linuxcare.com> wrote: > > > Have I bitten off more than I can chew, or is protocol layering > >over block devices REALLY possible?
> There's precedent for it; other operating systems have implemented > driver overlays (and did it quite some time ago). It would be VERY > useful for install floppies, too -- build a block driver that talks > directly to bios interrupts, use that to mount the install media, > then overlay the native drivers over it when you can access media > that's larger than 1.44mb (and with that, you can also discard the > initrd kludge and use a different bios driver to load the installer > off the floppy analogue de jour)
That would be a this-kind-of-floppy with this-range-of-BIOSes solution for PCs only. Not good enough. -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Viña del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
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