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- From: hamish@border.ocunix.on.ca (Hamish Macdonald)
- Subject: Re: Linux and Squirrel
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- Organization: The Linux Border
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- In-Reply-To: kolla@nvg.unit.no's message of 17 Apr 1996 08:32:24 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 11:48:52 GMT
-
- >>>>> On 17 Apr 1996 08:32:24 GMT,
- >>>>> In message <4l2aao$eir@due.unit.no>,
- >>>>> kolla@nvg.unit.no (Kolbjxrn Barmen) wrote:
-
- Kolbjxrn> It seems the NetBSD and Linux developers have forgotten all
- Kolbjxrn> about the A1200 pcmcia since none of them even mention it in
- Kolbjxrn> the To_do list. So linux now support 060, but still, no
- Kolbjxrn> pcmcia.
-
- I'd imagine that it is not a matter of the "developers" forgetting
- about PCMCIA. More likely they have no such hardware or documentation
- for the hardware. If you buy the "developers" an A1200, Squirrel PCMCIA
- SCSI adapter, and documentation, I would imagine the "developers"
- would write a driver for it.
-
- I put the word developers in quotation marks because nothing prevents
- any person from being a "NetBSD and Linux developer". There is no
- clique, you know. You provide a driver, and the primary kernel source
- tree maintainers will incorporate it into their tree.
-
- Linux supports '060 because someone out there with an '060 got the
- documentation for it, and made changes to the kernel source to support
- the '060. They then gave those changes back to Roman Hodek, the
- primary Linux/68k kernel source tree maintainer.
-