Devel Digest, Vol 11, Issue 24

[Duncan Booth]

Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 21:37 -0700, Gordon Schumacher wrote:
>> Duncan Booth <duncan.booth at suttoncourtenay.org.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> > I see from the mailing list archives that late November a load of
>> > drivers were removed from the kernel including CONFIG_PCNET32.
>> > 
>> > Is there any chance that one could be reinstated? I'd like to run
>> > the emulation using vmware rather than qemu, and there is currently
>> > no way to get the network working on vmware as it doesn't emulate
>> > the same network cards as qemu.
>> 
>> I'll second that, and it confirms that I was indeed far too 
>> sleep-deprived when I was last playing with the OLPC image as it
>> didn't even occur to me to check whether the module existed on disk. 
>> I've clearly been spoiled working in server-sized environments for
>> too long, hehe...
>
> Things like this that don't get into the trac system don't get done
> around here, realistically.  You know what to do...
>                                Regards,
>                                       - Jim

I added it as a comment to issue #503. Is that sufficient or should I start 
a new issue?