From: Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: USB kernel driver
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:03:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ach6hkxv.fsf@student.han.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051018133821.987E39000B@www.strato-webmail.de> (jochen@mades.net's message of "Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:38:21 +0200 (CEST)")
jochen@mades.net writes:
Hi,
> can somebody tell me if it is possible to integrate an USB kernel driver
> (f. ex. linux-2.6.0\drivers\usb) into GRUB2 to access USB devices?
>
> If possible, it would be great if somebody could tell me what basic steps
> I have to do.
I don't think it is possible. Linux has multitasking, interrupt
handing, a drive framework including the required bus drives, etc.
For GRUB we have to write our own drivers, I think. And besides that,
I don't think it is nice to maintain the glue code.
--
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-18 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-18 13:38 USB kernel driver jochen
2005-10-18 16:03 ` Marco Gerards [this message]
2005-10-18 16:17 ` Jonas Smedegaard
2005-10-18 16:25 ` Marco Gerards
2005-10-18 16:40 ` Jonas Smedegaard
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2005-10-21 6:09 AW: " jochen
2005-10-23 3:06 ` Hollis Blanchard
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