Heh...

*Picturing the BSD Daemon displayed on the VMU LCD* :)

Now, can someone get NetBSD running on the stand-alone VMUs? :)

Thanks,
Josh

On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Drew P. Vogel wrote:

> 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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