Re: Is Disk-on-Chip (DOC) support planned?

[Joseph M Dupre (AVAB Inc.)]

On 28 Sep 2005 at 4:07, address@hidden wrote:

> The patch you are talking about is for GRUB Legacy, this mailinglist
> is about GRUB 2.
That's right.  I would hope that any work I do now wouldn't become 
obsolete tomorrow.  Maybe the next day, but not tomorrow! 
 
> Personally I wouldn't mind such support.  Can you please describe what
> this support means?  I assume it is just a filesystem that needs to be
> supported?  I don't have the hardware, but implementing the filesystem
> should be easy if someone can give me an image of a filesystem.

The Grub Legacy DOC patch did a couple things: first at adds some 
configuration options regarding DOC support, most importantly an 
option to bypass the DOC boot code and boot "normally" by holding 
down the ctrl key while booting.  Secondly it contains code to create 
a firmware image of grub that is loaded into the "boot sector" of the 
DOC device. 

- Joe