From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>,
"'Linux Kernel'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: IDE-flash device and hard disk on same controller
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 12:07:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020823120727.B20963@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10208222016350.13077-100000@master.linux-ide.org>; from andre@linux-ide.org on Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 08:19:18PM -0700
On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 08:19:18PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> Oh and it is only useful for borken things like LINBIOS and other
> braindead systems like ARM that violate the 31 second rule of POST.
Umm, there are no such ARM based Linux devices that violate this.
Certainly none using boot loaders I've written.
> RMK, don't take it personally, but ARM is a headache of the nth degree.
> You and I know it, otherwise I would not have a raw TTL IDE PCI card to
> mimic your arch.
You're talking crap here.
That machine doesn't get anywhere near Linux until the drives are fully
up and running. This is more or less guaranteed since the kernel comes
off its one and only hard drive. Therefore, by definition the drive
must have completed its diagnostics before Linux boots.
--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-23 11:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-20 19:52 IDE-flash device and hard disk on same controller Heater, Daniel (IndSys, GEFanuc, VMIC)
2002-08-20 21:57 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-08-20 22:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-08-20 22:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-08-21 6:36 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-08-21 6:55 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-08-21 7:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-08-21 6:57 ` MMIO {Re: IDE-flash device and hard disk on same controller} Andre Hedrick
2002-08-21 7:10 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-08-22 5:34 ` IDE-flash device and hard disk on same controller Eric W. Biederman
2002-08-22 23:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-08-23 0:50 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-08-23 1:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-08-23 11:03 ` Russell King
2002-08-23 11:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-08-23 10:12 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-23 13:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-08-23 3:14 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-08-23 11:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-08-24 2:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-08-24 0:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-08-24 8:41 ` Russell King
2002-08-24 20:28 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-08-23 3:19 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-08-23 7:14 ` Helge Hafting
2002-08-23 7:49 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-08-23 10:50 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-08-23 11:08 ` Russell King
2002-08-23 11:07 ` Russell King [this message]
2002-08-23 11:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-08-22 13:41 ` bill davidsen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-23 10:48 Adam J. Richter
2002-08-23 10:14 Adam J. Richter
2002-08-23 8:31 Adam J. Richter
2002-08-23 8:59 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-08-23 9:54 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-08-23 6:54 Adam J. Richter
2002-08-23 7:45 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-08-23 11:10 ` Russell King
2002-08-23 17:08 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-08-23 17:42 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-08-21 13:22 Warner, Bill (IndSys, GEFanuc, VMIC)
2002-08-19 18:31 Heater, Daniel (IndSys, GEFanuc, VMIC)
2002-08-19 19:21 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-20 8:44 ` Padraig Brady
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