linux-2.3.37 / 2.3.18 / 2.2.13

[Alan Mimms]

Dan, the lack of RAMDISK support is still on Alan/Linus's "must do" list
before 2.3.x can become 2.4.x.  That would seem to imply that the necessary
work has not been done.

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On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Dan Malek wrote: > Robin O'Leary
wrote: >  > 
> > ....  Although I have now
> > coaxed 2.3.18 as far as trying to load the initrd, it has been an uphill
> > struggle all the way and I still haven't got the compressed bootloader
> > going properly.  Could it be that my problems stem from using 2.3.18?
> 
> 
> As I recall, the ram disk didn't work in 2.3.18.  There are some
> general things that don't work in 2.3.18, so I bailed out and
> updated 2.2.xx to get something stable.  Since 2.3.xx is now
> in it's mid-30's (still younger than I :-), perhaps it is mature
> enough that I should visit again and make sure the 8xx configuration
> continues to work.
> 
> 
> 	-- Dan
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