Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Nov 1998 21:54:00 -0800 | From | David Hinds <> | Subject | Re: pre*-6 breaks PCMCIA again |
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> Would you accept pcmcia stuff in standard kernel? Is it 2.2 or 2.3 > issue? (I'd love to be able to boot from pcmcia network card...)
I don't see any chance of it happening in the 2.2 time frame.
As for booting from a pcmcia network card... it should be said that the separate PCMCIA distribution doesn't have any real impact on what features are supported. You can't link PCMCIA directly into the kernel, but you can create PCMCIA initrd images, so you can create a boot disk for a PCMCIA root filesystem (either on a PCMCIA SCSI device or NFS over a PCMCIA network card).
Putting PCMCIA completely in the kernel would be a fair amount of work for not much benefit: you could, I guess, link client drivers into the kernel as well as the core PCMCIA code, but PCMCIA also uses a daemon for identifying cards and binding the appropriate drivers. You could also roll that into the kernel, along with the database of card identification information. And in fact, I did it a couple years ago as an experiment. But I think the module-based initrd route is a cleaner solution.
-- Dave Hinds
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