Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jun 1999 01:44:55 +0100 (GMT) | From | Riley Williams <> | Subject | Re: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel |
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Hi David.
>> If I could butt in for a second. Linus's solution is not right, >> in my humble opinion, but the problem he identifies needs a good >> solution better than "not many people have this problem".
> I never meant to give that implication. I object to Linus' claim > that these sorts of installations are unsupported because they > are too hard to do in the current PCMCIA architecture. It's a > simple space issue: adding PCMCIA to an initrd, when you're > already committed to the initrd framework, is not rocket > science. That doesn't mean it is a non-issue.
Since you appear to at least be willing to discuss the subject, perhaps you can answer the question I've asked a number of times regarding this, that nobody appears to be willing to answer:
Q> What is so magical about having the CD's boot image being Q> a 1440k image when the standard specifies that the boot Q> image can also be 2880k in size?
I can confirm that I've checked this out with both the systems I have access to that can boot off their CD drives, by burning a CD with a 2880k boot image and seeing if they can boot off it. Both booted fine.
However, I realise that a random sample of two computers is not firm proof that all such systems would be OK, hence my question...
Best wishes from Riley.
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