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| From: | Alex Roman |
| Subject: | Re: CD-ROM booting staus update |
| Date: | Wed, 4 Jul 2007 16:14:41 -0400 |
On 04/07/07, Uwe Hermann <address@hidden> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 11:14:40PM -0400, Alex Roman wrote: > On 28/06/07, Alex Roman <address@hidden> wrote: Does the code require a BIOS to work, i.e., do you rely on BIOS callbacks in the CDROM code? It would be great if you would _not_ do that, but instead use/write a small CDROM driver which directly accesses the hardware. This would make it possible to use grub2 with modern firmware implementations such as LinuxBIOS (www.linuxbios.org), which do not provide the legacy BIOS callbacks. Let the BIOS die it's well-deserved death.
Currently I rely on Int 13h functions to read data from the CD-ROM, so yes, that would be a legacy BIOS call. That will be the second stage of my Summer of Code project... Provided people have no objections against my patch, and all is well, I will soon start working on an ATA driver that will allow directly reading from a CD-ROM drive. -- Alex Roman <address@hidden>
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