Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Jun 1999 18:08:33 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel |
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On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, David Hinds wrote: > > 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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