Re: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel
yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu
Thu, 3 Jun 1999 11:05:54 -0600
On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 10:25:09AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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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