Re: USB kernel driver

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:25:45 +0200
Marco Gerards <address@hidden> wrote:

> Jonas Smedegaard <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > How about borrowing from etherboot?
> >
> > NIC drivers were borrowed from there in the past - is that (gonna
> > be) the case with v2 as well?
> >
> > Perhaps it would be relevant to share some of their work on getting
> > USB NICs to work as well?
> 
> Etherboot has USB drivers?  Etherboot is easier because it has to
> function in about the same circumstances as GRUB does.  So that would
> be possible.

Arrh - had a quick look just before but looking again it shows that USB
is only mentioned in a header file of a wireless driver. No support for
USB busses :-(


> I wonder how portable the etherboot drivers are to architectures like
> the PPC and sparc.

Oh yes - that's right :-)


 - Jonas


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