From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 12 1:13:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tricord.system.pl (tricord.system.pl [195.205.185.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C46D150B6; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 01:12:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from saper@system.pl) Received: from localhost (saper@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tricord.system.pl (SYSTEM Internet) with ESMTP id KAA01286; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:11:43 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:11:40 +0100 (MET) From: Marcin Cieslak To: "Forrest W. Christian" Cc: Mike Smith , Geff Hanoian , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels (flash cards off topic) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Forrest W. Christian wrote: > I agree with your statement in general. However, in the "truly" embedded > PC world, the most popular off-the-shelf Flash Disk solution (M-Systems > DiskOnChip-Millenium) is actually of this type. However, this solution > also provides native drivers for Windows and a whole host of other OS'es. > If there isn't a FreeBSD driver available, expect one from me in a few > weeks. Once there I managed to read a flash card containing Cisco IOS (it was M-Systems - or other manufacturer). However, the flash was one of linear types - just plain of bytes, and no wd/ata emulation. pccardd from PAO (3.2 then I guess) of course didn't detect nor load the driver, but I read this using pccardc without any problem (all filesystem structure, very simple at the moment and file contents). I guess that some special operation would be required to program the flash, but... Well, this is no longer freebsd-stable, is it? :) -- << Marcin Cieslak // saper@system.pl >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- SYSTEM Internet Provider http://www.system.pl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message