Im not supplying an anecdote or explaining anything to
you. Im just saying as an end-user that we could do
without an abort during bootup because it fails to
recognize the pcmcia card. yes-it could be critical to
some, to me it wasn't. but in either case, there
should be no harm in booting up the kernel.
regards
-kamal


--- Richard Rauch <rauch@rice.edu> wrote:
> > I had a problem with booting the netbsd kernel on
> a
> > dell 2600 laptop because it could not recognize
> the
> > pcmcia slot. I fixed it by recompiling the kernel
> so
> > that it didn't look at the pcmcia slot during
> bootup.
> > But IMHO, if the peripheral is non-critical, the
> > bootup procedure should not be aborted.[that way
> we
> > won't be forced to use the tiny image].
> > thanks
> 
> Are you telling me why that check is there, or just
> supplying a loosely
> related anecdote?  (I don't understand.)  Or perhaps
> you think that I'm
> booting GENERIC and are explaining that GENERIC
> doesn't support any PCMCIA
> devices?
> 
> I've used GENERIC_LAPTOP (which certainly does probe
> the PCMCIA slots) and
> have a custom config for a 1.6 kernel for my laptop.
>  But, if I use the
> kernel sources as-is for 1.6, this will *not*
> support my laptop's ethernet
> (which, as far as I'm concerned, is a pretty
> critical device).
> 
> 1.5.x supported the device with no apparent problems
> over the past year.
> It looks (so far) as if a one-line hack to defeat a
> (backwards?) test in
> the ne driver makes the card work with the 1.6
> driver.
> 
> 
>   ``I probably don't know what I'm talking about.''
> --rauch@math.rice.edu
> 


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