Re: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel

David Luyer (luyer@ucs.uwa.edu.au)
Tue, 08 Jun 1999 15:09:27 +0800

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> yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 11:59:05PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > I would really like
> > > to boot up monolitic kernel on my laptop and _still_ use pcmcia ne2k.
> >
> > Why?
>
> Faster. Smaller. Fewer TLB entries.
> Arguably by negligable amounts.

Also more secure, or at least less simple to do evil things if broken in to.

And Libretto's make great little machines for a server farm... stackable, too
:-)

David.

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