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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "Andrey Glazunov" <lhfrjgtn@peterlink.ru>
Cc: mtd@infradead.org
Subject: Re: lrp booting from M-Systems ISA flash card
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 10:33:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18230.981110002@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000b01c08cad$4ee427e0$4f11f2c3@drakanworkst>


lhfrjgtn@peterlink.ru said:
> i told about my experiment - i  boot from 1.44floppy with this ISA
> card inserted to check if any conflicts with BIOS extensions and any
> linux code - system boots OK ... is it good experiment ? 

Er... yes, that's a good experiment. Sorry, I'd missed that. The low-memory 
explanation doesn't really hold then. Can you boot from a floppy and load 
the kernel from the flash card?


lhfrjgtn@peterlink.ru said:
>  what is 'bitrot' ? 

The process whereby old code which hasn't been touched for a long time just 
seems to stop working. 

> and where can i found doc1000.c ? 

In the Linux 2.4 kernel: linux/drivers/mtd/doc1000.c. Or from my CVS tree 
if you want to patch it into 2.2.



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  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-02 10:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-31 23:53 lrp booting from M-Systems ISA flash card Andrey Glazunov
2001-02-01 11:35 ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-02  0:15   ` Andrey Glazunov
2001-02-02 10:33     ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-02-02 23:18       ` Andrey Glazunov
2001-02-09  1:23       ` Andrey Glazunov
2001-02-09  1:29         ` David Woodhouse

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