Re: Linux on 386 EX SBC Card

David Woodhouse (David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com)
Mon, 19 Oct 1998 11:59:55 +0100

christophe.leroy5@capway.com said:
> Do you think I could run linux on it ? Do I need the BIOS, or can
> Linux do all initialisation alone ? Is there a driver to access ROM as
> a block device ? If not can I use /dev/rom device MAJOR defined in
> devices.txt for my driver?

I've written drivers to use flash devices as both character and block devices,
using the FTL code from the PCMCIA distribution for block devices.

Take a look at the memory subsystem in the PCMCIA stuff. It wants separating so
that it's useful without the rest of the PCMCIA code, and then my drivers
should port to it quite easily.

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