If this is the only PCMCIA device you'll be using, then you probably do not need to use any Linux PCMCIA drivers at all... in fact, using them will only make your life more difficult. The reason is that booting is a BIOS function, not a kernel function: if your BIOS knows how to configure and boot from the CompactFlash slot, then when the Linux kernel gets control, the card should already be set up to look like an ordinary IDE device. If you then want the Linux PCMCIA system to manage that slot, then things get complicated... because the slot is already "live", and in fact, the device is probably already mounted as your root filesystem. There isn't much that the PCMCIA drivers can do to help: you can't hot swap that card, for instance. The socket driver tries to recognize this situation and will leave this slot alone. -- Dave |