An awesome use for the VMUs has nothing to do with storage. Couldn't we
use them as status indicators?

Regards,
Drew Vogel


On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Adrian McMenamin wrote:

>On Friday 04 Oct 2002 6:05 pm, Andy R wrote:
>> --- ITOH Yasufumi <itohy@netbsd.org> wrote:
>> > No function is added for now (but I'm working on
>> > memory card driver).
>>
>> What uses would this have? It would be neat if you
>> could bootstrap a kernel stored on it, but other than
>> that, is there a lot of use for it other than just
>> making it work?
>
>Well, I wrote the Linux memory card driver and you are right there is no
>immediate functional use for it. But, tell me, why is anyone bothering to
>port *nix to the Dreamcast?
>
>You won't be able to bootstrap a kernel from it - well not unless you loaded
>some other software that allowed you to do that - but there is little point
>to that.
>
>It can/could be used as some simple (and small) persistent storage. I am
>working on the vmu file system for Linux right now, in fact.
>
>>
>> Thanks for the work. Seems like the Dreamcast is
>> getting more attention these days. Glad to see it.
>>
>> Andy
>>
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