From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1J3wDs-0007ez-HY for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:20:12 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J3wDq-0007ei-Th for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:20:10 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J3wDo-0007eF-Oq for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:20:09 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J3wDo-0007eC-J0 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:20:08 -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 1J3wDo-0006rv-8d for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:20:08 -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 1J3wDi-0003t5-I9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:20:06 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1J3wD9-0003b2-BK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:19:27 +0100 Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:19:27 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20071216161927.GA13773@thorin> References: <20071216153046.GA11912@thorin> <47654D12.1040300@nic.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <47654D12.1040300@nic.fi> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird 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: moving ata initialisation to a command 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: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:20:11 -0000 On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 06:06:42PM +0200, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > I'd like to move ata.mod initialisation away from its _init routine and into > > a separate command. This way it isn't a nuissance when it gets included in > > monolithic builds (such as the ones made by grub-mkrescue) and disables biosdisk > > completely. > > > > Does that sound fine? > > > > While you are there why not add optional IO-base argument so one could > use more than one controller lurking in other IO-bases (second/third PCI > ?). Of course there needs to be some kind of auto detect for easier > usage for normal users. I don't like that. Sounds like a workaround for not having proper PCI support.. :-/ -- 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 /.)