From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (971110.SGI.8.8.8/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via SMTP id OAA224695 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 14:28:12 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id OAA12276 for linux-list; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 14:26:09 -0800 Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id OAA12265 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 14:26:07 -0800 Received: from rachael.franken.de (rachael.franken.de [193.175.24.38]) by sgi.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/970507) via ESMTP id OAA14904 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 14:26:05 -0800 env-from (rachael.franken.de!hub-fue!alpha.franken.de!tsbogend) Received: from hub-fue by rachael.franken.de via rmail with uucp id for cthulhu.engr.sgi.com!linux; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 23:25:52 +0100 (MET) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #4 built DST-Sep-8) Received: by hub-fue.franken.de (Smail3.1.29.1 #35) id m0xvrXl-002OiMC; Fri, 23 Jan 98 23:25 MET Received: (from tsbogend@localhost) by alpha.franken.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id XAA02086; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 23:24:20 +0100 Message-ID: <19980123232420.65169@alpha.franken.de> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 23:24:20 +0100 From: Thomas Bogendoerfer To: ralf@uni-koblenz.de Cc: Oliver Frommel , Mike Shaver , Alex deVries , SGI Linux Subject: Re: root-be-0.03.tar.gz References: <34C6E304.680D7541@netscape.com> <19980123045725.54480@uni-koblenz.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.85 In-Reply-To: <19980123045725.54480@uni-koblenz.de>; from ralf@uni-koblenz.de on Fri, Jan 23, 1998 at 04:57:25AM +0100 Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Fri, Jan 23, 1998 at 04:57:25AM +0100, ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote: > Q: What filesystem types are supported directly by the ARC firmware in the > ROMs? is there a way to do a raw disk access via ARC firmware ? Mabye we could use some bits from SILO (Sparc Linux Loader) and get ext2fs access this way. Thomas. -- See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too ;-) [Linus Torvalds in <4rikft$7g5@linux.cs.Helsinki.FI>]