From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Status of ATA support
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:44:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071110204442.GF15633@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <473604C2.6020307@nic.fi>
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 09:21:38PM +0200, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> Marco Gerards wrote:
> > First of all, this is mainly for i386-linuxbios. On i386-pc we have
> > to disable biosdisk support because ata.mod and biosdisk.mod do not
> > like eachother :-). Perhaps disk access via the BIOS will not be
> > possible/safe anymore after loading ata.mod.
>
> We have to make sure we are not using BIOS for accessing disk after that
> point.
We already do (check for grub_disk_firmware_fini() function and
grub_disk_firmware_is_tainted variable).
But it has no effect on loaded OSes of course :-/
> And ATA controller should be at stable state after resuming
> normal operations OR we install custom int13h handler.
An int handler sounds like the sane thing to do..
--
Robert Millan
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<DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak?
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-10 20:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-10 18:03 Status of ATA support Marco Gerards
2007-11-10 19:21 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2007-11-10 20:44 ` Robert Millan [this message]
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