Re: Linux on 386 EX SBC Card

Oliver Xymoron (oxymoron@waste.org)
Tue, 20 Oct 1998 21:49:45 -0500 (CDT)


On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, christophe leroy wrote:

> > > Is there a driver to access ROM as a block device ? If not can I use
> > > /dev/rom device MAJOR defined in devices.txt for my driver?

I wrote a trivial RO block device called ROMdisk about 8 months ago.
Together with ROMFS, it lets you do things like build a filesystem image
directly into the compressed kernel or treat a block of physical memory as
a block device.

http://waste.org/~oxymoron/linux

But the message I sent to HPA requesting a device number didn't go
anywhere.

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