From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1IqxCP-0006pJ-Hd for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:45:01 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IqxCN-0006p4-Pp for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:44:59 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IqxCM-0006oo-CK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:44:59 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IqxCM-0006oj-5x for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:44:58 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IqxCL-0006bh-MB for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:44:57 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IqxCJ-0004dq-Th for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:44:56 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IqxC6-0004Rh-9g for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:44:42 +0100 Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:44:42 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20071110204442.GF15633@thorin> References: <87d4uic70x.fsf@xs4all.nl> <473604C2.6020307@nic.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <473604C2.6020307@nic.fi> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Microsoft discourages use of Outlook. X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: Status of ATA support X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:45:00 -0000 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 I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)