kernel network drivers vs module network drivers
Thomas Lange
lange at informatik.Uni-Koeln.DE
Mon Aug 4 12:59:00 CEST 2003
>>>>> On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 01:54:21 -0500, "Mike Grommet" <mgrommet at elucidations.net> said:
> boot floppy... So, several quick questions come to mind
> a) am I correct in this assumption, that there is no way to make
> the boot floppy support these built in network cards?
Currently not. Somebody (not me) has to look how to create a
bootfloopy which uses an initrd so we can load kernel modules before
the kernel mounts the root files system.
> b) any way to compile support for a kernel module directly into
> the kernel?
This should work for all (or most) kernel drivers.
--
Gruss Thomas
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