Re: Floppy on amd64/xen?

[Klaus Heinz <k.heinz%augacht.kh-22.de@localhost>]

Hauke Fath wrote:

> I tried to create a Grub boot floppy on a -current amd64 xen machine, 
> but found that floppy access is not configured in XEN3_DOM0.
> 
> When I added the respective fdc*/fd* linesto the kernel config, I 
> found that it seems  not to be supported, either?

I don't know about XEN3 but with XEN2 you cannot use our floppy driver
because it needs DMA which is not supported by XEN2. A USB floppy should
work.
If I remember correctly, Linux has an option to use the floppy driver
without DMA.

ciao
     Klaus