Re: AoE INT13h progress

James Harper wrote:
> 
> The problems to be solved before I can put something up for people to
> look at are:
> . What do I use as the geometry of the drive? I'm just hardcoding stuff
> for now but obviously that isn't going to work outside my setup.

You should ask AoE what the geometry is and then munge in the way a BIOS 
would.  As an alternative, you could always have H=255 S=63; today 
that's really good enough for most things, since volumes < 8 GB are so rare.

> Actually just thinking about it... maybe I can ask AoE what the geometry
> is...
> . How to make it exist with Etherboot in a way that is actually useful.
> 
> The things to be done before it is truly useful are:
> . 'write' and 'extended write' Int13 functions
> . any other Int13 function that turns out to be required.
> . A config menu of some sort, eg for setting the geometry and turning
> AoE booting on and off.

I don't think you need a menu for setting the geometry.  You only need 
to turn AoE booting on and off if your AoE code is resident, but I would 
suggest not doing that, and instead let the AoE-capable code be a 
secondary download, so that it can be updated centrally.

> Anyway, it's not turning out to be nearly as hard as I thought. I'll put
> the code up somewhere once it is tidy enough that I'm not ashamed of it
> :)

:)

	-hpa


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