From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from majordomo by infradead.org with local (Exim 3.20 #2) id 14OdX8-0006hE-00 for mtd-list@infradead.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2001 10:33:38 +0000 Received: from dell-paw-3.cambridge.redhat.com ([195.224.55.237] helo=passion.cambridge.redhat.com) by infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #2) id 14OdX6-0006h8-00 for mtd@infradead.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2001 10:33:37 +0000 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <000b01c08cad$4ee427e0$4f11f2c3@drakanworkst> References: <000b01c08cad$4ee427e0$4f11f2c3@drakanworkst> <001701c08be1$0c1be0f0$8412f2c3@drakanworkst> <1464.981027321@redhat.com> To: "Andrey Glazunov" Cc: mtd@infradead.org Subject: Re: lrp booting from M-Systems ISA flash card Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 10:33:22 +0000 Message-ID: <18230.981110002@redhat.com> Sender: owner-mtd@infradead.org List-ID: 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. -- dwmw2 To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe mtd" to majordomo@infradead.org