Subject: Re: root on cardbus devices, a fix...
To: Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang@wsrcc.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/23/2000 19:20:25
On 23 Jan 2000 12:02:50 -0800
Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang@wsrcc.com> wrote:
> Hayakawa Koichi pointed me at a different trick that might also be of
> interest for mounting a rootfs on a cardbus device. Setting the 0x1
> flag causes the cardbus-ethernet attach to occur before the rootfs
> needs to be selected.
>
> cardslot* at cbb? flags 0x0001
>
> With this and -current of 12/20/1999 I could mount an NFS root on a
> d-link cardbus tulip board.
Yes, I know that works, but it's not a good general-purpose solution.
In fact, the "flags" hack can go away with my changes.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>