Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Jun 1999 11:05:54 -0600 | From | yodaiken@chelm ... | Subject | Re: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel |
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On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 10:25:09AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 3 Jun 1999 yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu wrote: > > > > So the bios does set up carbus ide right. And so we only care about the case > > where the bios knows enough to setup the carbus ide correctly? > > That's certainly the main case, yes. If the BIOS doesn't know how to see > the CD, then we obviously can't boot from it anyway and the thing is > pretty moot. > > Same goes for floppies etc. > > Especially the CD boot didn't _use_ to be all that common, I'll certainly > agree with David there. But as far as I can tell, it's certainly required > functionality these days.
CD boot was a stealth feature on redhat until recently. This is a new problem. It's not reasonable to say, "it's the vendors problem", but it is reasonable to ask why it can't/shouldn't be done in initrd then.
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