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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Indrek Kruusa <indrek.kruusa@artecdesign.ee>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: NAND behind INT13 BIOS interface
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:09:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1153321785.29664.3.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44BDFCAE.80807@artecdesign.ee>

On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 12:34 +0300, Indrek Kruusa wrote:
> I have board with NAND and BIOS seems to have built-in driver for that. 
> BIOS provides INT 13 interface for the NAND too.
> 
> Is there a solution to access such NAND (with the help of INT 13) as a 
> usual block device from Linux?

There used to be such a hack -- it's quite evil and fragile though. You
have to switch back into real mode to invoke the BIOS call, and you need
to preserve enough of the pre-boot environment that it can still work.
Running it in vm86 mode might also work, if you're lucky.

Seriously though, I wouldn't bother -- just implement a translation
layer in Linux which is compatible.

-- 
dwmw2

  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-19 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-19  9:34 NAND behind INT13 BIOS interface Indrek Kruusa
2006-07-19 15:09 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2006-07-20 10:32   ` Indrek Kruusa

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