Re: serial line - file interface

[Lubomir Kundrak]

Would it be hard to implement SLIP driver in existing network code?

> On Friday 03 February 2006 13:10, Kiril Paunov wrote:
>> I hope that this will be interesting for you...
>
> Great. :)
>
>> I'm making some experiments with embedde OS, currently with RTEMS on
>> i386.
>> I use some PC (to hand) for my tests and got to the problem with
>> booting.
>> See, it's just to much time for each boot! So I made some changes to
>> grub
>> to be able to boot images from the serial line. I know that there are
>> better sulutions for this problem but maybe this can help on some way to
>> the grub project. There is a new command 'comload' - it's a bit silly
>> but
>> that's Ok for me. That's what I have used first... before the idea for
>> the
>> `(com)' device.
>
> I'd like to ask why you invented your own protocol. Why don't you use an
> existing protocol, for example, Kermit?
>
>> + * include/grub/comio.h io/comio.c: New file interface.
>> + This allows to download and boot ower the serial line.
>> + I't usefull for people that work with embedded systems.
>> + It's not very good covered by the file interface but i't
>> + works well. There is not a good abstraction for this kind
>> + off filesystem (net/serial/???)!!!
>
> This should be handled by the network device layer. Actually, the purpose
> of
> "net" devices in GRUB 2 is to support all non-disk devices.
>
> Okuji
>
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