Re: USB storage no-boot regression (bisected)

Alan Cox
2009-04-16T10:52:58Z

> > Though it's an onboard USB SSD, not a pluggable stick.
>
> Wow, that's insane. Leave it to a hardware designer to use a bus that
> you never know if you have discovered all the devices to be the primary
> device to boot from.

Let me see:

- Standardised small component
- Low pin count and low wire count bus
- Cheap

In an embedded environment where you know the device is wired in at
software level that strikes me not as insane but very sensible.