From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NO_RELAYS autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: by cvs.gentoo.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8703B31576; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 22:22:55 -0700 (MST) Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 15:05:12 -0700 From: drobbins@gentoo.org To: Thomas Flavel Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rc4 Message-ID: <20010107150512.A7711@cvs.gentoo.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from thomasfl@cogs.susx.ac.uk on Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 06:04:04PM +0000 Resent-From: drobbins@gentoo.org Resent-Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 22:22:55 -0700 Resent-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Resent-Message-Id: <20010108052255.8703B31576@cvs.gentoo.org> Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 0cd2e968-dfc0-4677-86fe-98453fc031d1 X-Archives-Hash: a7292da154d2d91060969e9cdf1de874 On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 06:04:04PM +0000, Thomas Flavel wrote: > Hi, > > Glad to see there's finally a mailing list, now I can bug everyone and > not just Daniel personally... ;) > > > Can we please have pcmcia support in the default kernel? It's a real > > pain having to install off the CD and then build a new kernel, put it > > on floppy and then move to that to the machine in question. It'll be > > a bigger pain if that laptop ends up being my only working machine. 8( > > Hmm, I recall asking if rc3 could have gcc and the kernel source > available from the boot cd - I see the kernel source code is in the > packages directory, but I think there may have been a > mis-communication... I actually meant that gcc be executable from > boot.img so that a kernel can be compiled directly from the boot cd > (onto ramfs presumably, unless you mount anything else) without having > to install anything to a hard disk - I for one would find this very > useful, and I'm surprised I haven't seen any other distros do this. > Comments please I think that's impossible right now, since the kernel sources need to be on a read/write filesystem. However, I believe that this is changing with the official 2.4.0 release (or some time soon), which will allow the sources to reside on the CD. Then, it'll be possible. Otherwise, you'd need ~150Mb of spare RAM just to hold the upacked kernel sources in a RAM filesystem. -- Daniel Robbins President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org Gentoo Technologies, Inc.