Re: [MiNT] Block device driver interface

[Standa Opichal <opichals@seznam.cz>]

Hi!

Frank Naumann wrote:

> > My idea is to create /dev/hdX devices
>
> This is userspace visible thing and have not much todo with kernel 
> internal implementation.

Right, OK.

> > that would use a common XHDI block device driver implementation driver 
> > (parametrized) that would be an implementation of the interface to be 
> > designed. I suppose we want to replace the buffer cache calls away 
> > from the filesystems implementation and instead use the new interface 
> > there.
>
> I'm sure you wont like todo that. The filesystems are already device 
> independant as they only use the buffer cache for I/O. The current 
> buffer cache use at the moment XHDI and as fallback BIOS.

Yes, I found out this at the end...

> Just sort out these things and modify the buffer cache to use a new
> block device driver interface.

Yeah.

Standa