> I see that major device number 31 is assigned to "ROM/flash memory card", and
> I suppose I should use this.
Yes ;-)
>
> The question is: What happened to the work that provoked the registration of
> the device number? Who was working on it, and how far did they get?
Ahem, that was me. I was asked to program a driver for a ROM ISA-card that
was intended for a diskless machine. The driver (for Linux-1.2.6)
was working nice, and I could boot Linux from the card, but (for reasons I
don't know) the product later missed to reach the 'market' and I did no
further work on it.
... And yes, I was the one who registered the device number.
Hans
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