Re: [Etherboot-developers] btext and filo patch to Etherboot 5.2.4

[Timothy L. <tl...@ro...>]

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 15:51, Peter Lister wrote:
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Hi Peter

> So - if FILO had existed when the original IDE work was done, it would
> have gone there, instead of the somewhat anomalous existance of
> Etherboot having a disk driver.

It seems to be quite a bit more than the current ide_disk driver.  I am
assuming that it is a lot more capable.

> Obviously, it would be good for FILO and Etherboot to share generic code
> such as bus support (PCI, USB, etc). The suggestion is to merge the
> projects as far as possible - which seems reasonable to me. A recent

That sounds reasonable.  I was slightly amused to see a bunch of grub
code included.  Etherboot drivers have been going that way for a while. 
I know this has been mentioned before but it would be nice if some of
the related projects had more interaction.

> If FILO has no home, it would make sense for Etherboot to "adopt" it,
> rather than for it to be an adjunct to LinuxBIOS.

Just because it has no home doesn't mean we should adopt it.  However I
do know what you mean.  If it makes sense for Etherboot to have this
functionality which it probably makes to adopt it.

Thanks for the details.

Tim