Re: USB storage no-boot regression (bisected)

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Apr 16 2009 - 06:52:59 EST


> > Though it's an onboard USB SSD, not a pluggable stick.
>
> Wow, that's insane. Leave it to a hardware designer to use a bus that
> you never know if you have discovered all the devices to be the primary
> device to boot from.

Let me see:

- Standardised small component
- Low pin count and low wire count bus
- Cheap

In an embedded environment where you know the device is wired in at
software level that strikes me not as insane but very sensible.
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