From: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@pld-linux.org>
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To: Stan Bubrouski <stan@ccs.neu.edu>
Subject: Re: 2.6.1-mm1 and modular IDE.
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 01:26:20 +0100
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On Saturday 10 of January 2004 01:09, Stan Bubrouski wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 17:50, Wojciech 'Sas' Cieciwa wrote:
> > OK. I try to build 2.6.1 with and without -mm1 patch.
> > Both with options listed below.
> > in attachment are output logs.
> > they are identical - that means that modular IDE in 2.6.1-mm1 is broken.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't modular IDE be a bad idea anyways
> if you don't have SCSI boot drive?  Think about it, without IDE layer,
> how's it going to mount the IDE drives to get the IDE module off of one
> of them?  You'd need it compiled in, right?
Wrong. You can always use initrd and put IDE (or any else) modules there and 
that's what we do with Wojtek in PLD.

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Arkadiusz Mi?kiewicz    CS at FoE, Wroclaw University of Technology
arekm.pld-linux.org AM2-6BONE, 1024/3DB19BBD, arekm(at)ircnet, PLD/Linux
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