I feel the need to revamp the fillinbuf stuff. The truth is that accessing paged/blocked memory is quite board specific. The Linux-MTD drivers recognise this and made "map drivers" separate. This is becoming more criticle with the kexec/elf stuff and initrd images where you have large items that don't fit into the 1Meg bios window. I am currently working with systems where I can select from multiple initrd images and/or multiple root filesystems and multiple kernels. I can now (with the command line stuff) edit my kernel command lines. In addition to a better fillinbuf, I'm tempted to add support for a romfs for accessing various "binary blobs or elf images". Romfs is VERY simple and the tools for creating a romfs already exist. Comments? Cheers! Ty -- Tyson D Sawyer iRobot Corporation Senior Systems Engineer Real World Interface Div. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robots for the Real World 603-532-6900 ext 206 http://www.irobot.com