Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:54:01 +0100 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: Generic Disk Driver in Linux |
| |
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 06:17:59PM +0530, Daniel Rodrick wrote:
> I was curious that can we develop a generic disk driver that could > handle all the kinds of hard drives - IDE, SCSI, RAID et al? > > I thought we could use the BIOS interrupt 13H for this purpose, but > ran into a LOT of real mode / protected mode issues.
A BIOS only contains a better than nothing quality driver, take the VESA VLB driver as an example. And lacks portability, upgrading is a pain.
Ralf - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |