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From: "Bao C. Ha" <baoha@sensoria.com>
To: <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: RE: DOC2000 support for a custom PPC750 board
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 11:01:13 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <007c01c1662c$3e1767c0$456c020a@SENSORIA> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29072.1004953009@redhat.com>

> The DiskOnChip requires no firmware. It is not an intelligent device. 
> What's normally referred to as the DiskOnChip 'firmware' is the BIOS 
> extension which installs a driver which hooks the PC INT 13h 
> disk service 
> interrupt and hence makes DOS and LILO work. I assume you 
> don't want that :)

Can the firmware boot into LILO directly?  Or it requires the patched
lilo-mtd in the patches subdirectory?

I have been under the impression that you need lilo-mtd to boot the
DiskOnChip.  However, the lilo-mtd patch is dated March of 2000.

Thanks.
Bao

 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-11-05 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-05  9:18 DOC2000 support for a custom PPC750 board Boris Bulkin
2001-11-05  9:36 ` David Woodhouse
2001-11-05 10:53   ` Boris Bulkin
2001-11-05 11:20     ` David Woodhouse
2001-11-05 19:01   ` Bao C. Ha [this message]
2001-11-05 22:54     ` David Woodhouse

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