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SubjectRe: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel


On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, David Hinds wrote:
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> If you can boot from this PCMCIA device (which is a platform specific
> feature, and not something you should necessarily expect to be able to
> do), then you can load an initrd image from it. So the issue reverts
> to the distribution maintainers' choice of supported installation
> modes. I don't know whose CD you were using, but Red Hat has chosen,
> and documented their choice, to support this type of installation
> using boot diskettes.

In short, it's not supported. Why? Because the current PCMCIA architecture
just makes it too painful to validate easily.

Linus


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