Re: [ECOS] load data from floppy

[Nick Garnett <nickg at ecoscentric dot com>]

davidw@dedasys.com (David N. Welton) writes:

> Nick Garnett <nickg@ecoscentric.com> writes:
> 
> > In which case these jpegs could just be loaded as binary data by
> > GRUB when it loads the executable.
> 
> As part of the kernel?  The ideal result would be to create a system
> in which the jpegs are attached later rather than at compile time...

GRUB will load any number of files into memory, not just the kernel. So
you can have all the jpegs loaded independently. They do have to be
loaded at load time, but most PCs have lots of memory you can keep
them in until you need them.

> 
> I'm having a go at making a floppy driver, but it doesn't appear to be
> particularly simple:-/
> 

I seem to recall that the PC floppy hardware is really nasty to
program. IDE is a doddle by comparison.

-- 
Nick Garnett                    eCos Kernel Architect
http://www.ecoscentric.com      The eCos and RedBoot experts


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