Re: split biosfs.c into several XDD's?

[Thomas Schulze <ts@uni-paderborn.de>]

> From mint-request@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu Tue Apr 26 13:36:02 1994
> From: itschere@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
> Subject: Re: split biosfs.c into several XDD's?
> To: kuehn@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE (Ulrich Kuehn)
> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 94 12:37:01 MET DST
> Cc: mint@atari.archive.umich.edu
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>  Huhu!
> 
> > Great idea! That way it would be very easy to do support for the drivers.
> 
>  My saying... :-)
> 
> > Do you want to include these drivers into the mint kernel, or do you see
> > them as real external drivers? I think, it would be better to have a working
> > version of each inside the mint kernel. Also because the init code should
> > sort out the right devices to install we would really need them linked in.
> 
>  *THAT* would also be possible from a "real" XDD. If the majority would like
> to have them linked in, it would need some minor changes in some initialization
> routine, but also in the way new XDDs are loaded now: They can only *add* a
> new device of a different name, but not *replace* another one with the same
> name. Since I would like them to be easier supported, say easier be changed
> to something different, I'd like them to be real XDDs. And I would like them
> to be hardware orientated, not device name orientated. But one could argue
> about that.
> 
>  Poor Eric, patches (or patch suggestions) must be a big pile to dig through
> on the desk in the meantime, especially(sp?) if stories like this eventually
> come true... ;-)
> 
> ciao,
> TeSche
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