<x-flowed>At 10:24 AM 1/29/01 +1300, "Nathan Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have the impression that the difficulty with PCMCIA
> > is that it is partially kernel modules (which cannot
> > be "compiled-in" as far as I know) and partially other
> > code that would have glibc dependencies. I don't have
> > a running slink system to be able to compile the
> > latest PCMCIA stuff with a newer kernel, etc.
>
>No, the modules can't be compiled into the kernel in 2.2 and lower. But in
>2.4 you are able to compile the PCMCIA modules you want into the kernel.
>From there you can even nfs-root your system.
>Has anyone got an lrp image with a 2.4 kernel in it that PCMCIA could be
>added to? I havn't tried it as yet with just adding a 2.4 kernel to a 2.2
>system. would this work? There would have to be a lot of work done to
>convert the /dev to the newer devfs and also the iptables etc. And if
>noone has done it, I may as well.
Nathan,
I don't think anyone has a 2.4 image yet, but Charles has applied Dave C.'s
patches to 2.4-test11. You can get it here:
http://lrp.steinkuehler.net/kernel/2.4.0-test11/
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