From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Daniel Rodrick <daniel.rodrick@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org>,
linux-newbie@vget.kernel.org, satinder.jeet@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Generic Disk Driver in Linux
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:54:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060824165401.GB19881@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <292693080608240547w394bacc4l2410b6eba98d950b@mail.gmail.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-24 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-24 12:47 Generic Disk Driver in Linux Daniel Rodrick
2006-08-24 13:10 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-24 16:54 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
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2006-08-24 18:19 Aleksey Gorelov
2006-08-24 18:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-24 19:40 ` Aleksey Gorelov
2006-08-24 20:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-24 22:21 ` Aleksey Gorelov
2006-08-24 22:21 ` Aleksey Gorelov
2006-08-25 8:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-25 8:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-25 16:50 ` Aleksey Gorelov
2006-08-25 16:50 ` Aleksey Gorelov
2006-08-24 20:36 ` Phillip Susi
2006-08-24 22:27 ` Aleksey Gorelov
2006-08-24 22:27 ` Aleksey Gorelov
2006-08-25 10:21 ` Helge Hafting
2006-08-25 17:05 ` Aleksey Gorelov
2006-08-25 17:05 ` Aleksey Gorelov
2006-08-25 18:19 ` Greg Freemyer
2006-08-25 18:19 ` Greg Freemyer
2006-08-28 10:46 ` Helge Hafting
2006-08-28 10:46 ` Helge Hafting
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2006-08-25 0:12 ` Robert Hancock
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