Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:58:59 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Marcin Cieslak <saper@system.pl>
Cc:        "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@iMach.com>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Geff Hanoian <boing@boing.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels (flash cards off topic) 
Message-ID:  <200001121758.KAA15284@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:11:40 %2B0100." <Pine.GSO.4.20.0001121003350.940-100000@tricord.system.pl> 
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.20.0001121003350.940-100000@tricord.system.pl>  

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In message <Pine.GSO.4.20.0001121003350.940-100000@tricord.system.pl> Marcin Cieslak writes:
: 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... 

Actually, I've toyed with the diea of adding support for the linear
FLASH pccards.  I have several, but no time to even think about this
sort of project.  The linear flash cards don't have an ata interface,
so PAO and soon -current won't recognize them.

Warner


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200001121758.KAA15284>