Subject: Re: PCIC interrupt selection
To: Ted Lemon <mellon@hoffman.vix.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/10/1998 13:37:01
On Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:29:21 -0700 
 Ted Lemon <mellon@hoffman.vix.com> wrote:

 > If you have a general solution in mind, this makes a pretty good
 > argument, but if you don't, it's not so great.   I mean, right now,
 > real people (including us, may I remind you?) can't install NetBSD off
 > a floppy.   This is a bug, not a feature.   Providing a mechanism
 > whereby this problem can be circumvented for the vast majority of
 > cases (who _installs_ to a SCSI PCMCIA device?) is a big win.   We
 > need either the real fix or some kind of hack.   This one sounds
 > viable to me.   Are you offering an alternative?

Yes, I do have something in mind.  But the N times I've suggested it
to people, no one has ever done anything with it.  I don't have time
to do it, myself, or I would.

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