Re: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel

yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu
Thu, 3 Jun 1999 08:00:25 -0600

On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 03:42:01PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> If you think I'm going to use a floppy to boot up an operating system
> with, you're wrong. It makes perfect sense to just boot up the kernel, and
> start installation from the CD.
>
> Except it doesn't work unless you can read the CD. Which you can't with
> the current PCMCIA approach.

How do you boot up the kernel from CD if you can't read the cd?

> NOW do you see why I think a user-mode component is simply not acceptable
> for any basic functionality?

The problem is clear. The solution of putting it kernel for testing seems
dubious and comes from a surprising source.

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