On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Eric Delaunay wrote: > I don't know exactly which devices are sun specific but I need sunmouse, kbd & > fb0 at least in addition to a generic set. I think these ones are good > candidates for generic-sparc: > > system, > std, floppy-small, > ttyS0, ttyS1, ttyS2, ttyS3, > links, printer, isdn-tty, isdn-io, > sunmouse, /* gpm */ > framebuffer,kbd, /* needed for X11 */ > audio, std-tty, > std-hd, scd, st, sg
You would also want to add /dev/openprom to that list as well. > I need a device for nfs-root partition. Actually I use /dev/nfs declared as > block device, major 0, minor 1, but I don't know if these attributes are > really used. Kernel documentation about nfsroot says that it's not a real > device but just a synonym to tell the kernel to use NFS instead of a real > device. To be able to boot via network on Sparc, I have to create this device > on the server's mount point (I put it in a root.tgz image that looks like > root.bin from boot floppies). You shouldn't need to have a /dev/nfs. When you do a "root=/dev/nfs" on the kernel command line, the kernel just checks an array of device names. There is no attempt to open any userland file at all. See the routine parse_root_dev() in linux/init/main.c for more information. Tom -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .