Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 09:14:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 09:14:50 -0500 Received: from [81.2.122.30] ([81.2.122.30]:45829 "EHLO darkstar.example.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 09:14:49 -0500 From: John Bradford Message-Id: <200302031425.h13EP0RX015976@darkstar.example.net> Subject: Re: Compactflash cards dying? To: mkp@mkp.net (Martin K. Petersen) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:25:00 +0000 (GMT) Cc: bryan@bogonomicon.net, pavel@ucw.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: from "Martin K. Petersen" at Feb 03, 2003 09:08:49 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 947 Lines: 24 [snip discussion about Compact Flash cards] On a somewhat-related subject, is there currently an easy way to use a PROM as a read-only filesystem? I.E. I'd like to write a raw filesystem image to an PROM using a PROM burner then connect that, probably to the parallel port, and use it as a block device. It should be fairly simple to build the parallel port -> PROM adaptor, as it would essentially just be a ZIF socket, and a whole load of latches to multiplex the limited number of I/O lines to the 32 or so needed for address and data, and the driver should be straightforward to write as well. Or is there a reason why this hasn't been done? PROMs are much cheaper than Compact Flash... John. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/