Re: USB kernel driver

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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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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