[Etherboot-developers] 5.1.2+ status

[Eric W B. <ebi...@ln...>]

O.k. I have been making headway.

I have what looks like a solid read only disk api.  That should handle
just about everything, CDs being the major question mark.

The floppy driver and the ide driver both seem to work, and have
been converted, to normal drivers, and are now listed in NIC.

The floppy driver still has several corner cases that need polish,
(It doesn't detect when you don't have a disk in the drive or when the 
  floppy drive isn't plugged in.), and it doesn't autodetect the geometry
of your disk, but the core works fine.

I have dug out the compressor/decompressor code from upx, and
am just about ready to incoporate it into etherboot.  The decompressor
is 144 bytes, with no buffers.  It uses the stack but only as a space
optimization (push/pop is smaller that mov).

I will check all of this code in shortly.  Now I need to go to bed.

Eric