FW: dual sleeves in intimate?

-----Original Message-----
From: James Conner [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 18 December 2001 14:37
To: Chris Jones
Subject: RE: [Intimate] dual sleeves in intimate?


Loading the kernel is only half of the battle.. We also need to configure
whatever pcmcia cards the user has... (i.e. potentially hundreds of
different network cards, ip addresses etc). All of this would need to be
handled by bootloader/kernel. At the moment, cardmgr is not built into the
kernel. I understand that there's no plans to include it either.

All we use familiar for at the moment is kernel, modules and pcmcia support
(i.e. cardmgr etc). If all of the pcmcia stuff was in the kernel, then we
don't need familiar on flash... Tho' I have to ask what else you'd put on
there. You still need a kernel and modules stored on flash, so that rules
out CE...  (Unless you plan on booting from CE, which already works... just
without power management).

All intimate needs to boot is kernel+pcmcia support.. It doens't matter if
it's a ramdisk, cramfs, jffs2, familiar, kiss, CE or whatever... just as
long as we get the root filesystem mounted (potentially over NFS) and
pivot_root to it.

Feel free to mess around tho'.. I'd love to see so alternative ways to boot.

Jim / Tangent

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Chris Jones
Sent: 18 December 2001 14:13
To: Sanghyo Kim
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Intimate] dual sleeves in intimate?


Hi

* Sanghyo Kim ([email protected]) wrote:
> If not, can I install initmate on familar 0,5 instead
> without any problem?

I had to fiddle with the names of some of the kernel modules to get
intimate to work properly with dual sleeves, I think the familiar guys
changed some of the module names.

To the Intimate developers - are there any plans to change the way
Intimate sits on top of Familiar? It's not an ideal system at the
moment - given that the bootldr can now load a kernel from within a
jffs2 image, shouldn't it be possible to bypass Familiar almost
entirely?

Cheers,
--
Chris "Ng" Jones
  [email protected]
  www.linuxdude.co.uk