Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Device Driver | Date | 15 Oct 2000 23:06:31 -0700 |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10010152230340.5923-100000@master.linux-ide.org> By author: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > 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.
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