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Re: USB kernel driver
From: |
Jonas Smedegaard |
Subject: |
Re: USB kernel driver |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:17:38 +0200 |
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On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:03:08 +0200
Marco Gerards <address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> > can somebody tell me if it is possible to integrate an USB kernel
> > driver (f. ex. linux-2.6.0\drivers\usb) into GRUB2 to access USB
> > devices?
> >
> > If possible, it would be great if somebody could tell me what basic
> > steps I have to do.
>
> I don't think it is possible. Linux has multitasking, interrupt
> handing, a drive framework including the required bus drives, etc.
>
> For GRUB we have to write our own drivers, I think. And besides that,
> I don't think it is nice to maintain the glue code.
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?
- Jonas
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