[parisc-linux] floppy images

[Grant Grundler]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 08:35:05AM -0800, Randolph Chung wrote:
> > why are floppy images not supported like for i386?
> 
> I guess mostly because no one has asked for them, or been motivated
> enough to create them. Unlike i386, diskless installs for hppa work 
> very well....

and palo (boot loader) doesn't grok compressed vmlinuz images.
Patches are welcome...

> also, i think floppy drivers are not yet supported for many of the 
> parisc floppy controllers.

and HP couldn't published anything for floppy controller because of 
litigation at the time the parisc-linux work was being funded. :^(

FWIW, floppy controller support has been on the TODO list since day one.

grant