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- From: Claus Brod <clausb@hpbeo79.bbn.hp.com>
- Subject: Re: XATTR structure for biosfs entries
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 93 16:00:38 MEZ
- Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85]
-
- >> > Better still.. emulate the TOS hard disk driver interface layer on top of a
- >> > generic, device oriented driver fully integrated into MiNT so as to allow
- >> > asynchronous disk transfers etc.. that would speed up MiNT no end!!
- >>
- >> Still working on it, but this needs some support from the MiNT kernel
- >> (GEMDOS reentrancy and related stuff).
- >
- >Claus - did you mean you were working on "a completely new harddisk driver"
- >or did you mean "a generic, device oriented driver" ?
-
- Well, in the end it will be both, but I'll start with some smaller
- extensions to my existing hard disk driver that will enable it to
- transfer data in the background. In fact, it already does until
- GEMDOS bombs because of reentrancy problems. I stopped the project
- at this point, but given that Eric works on Jaguar items only
- nowadays, maybe I have to hack the kernel on my own.
-
- Extending the driver to form a proper device will be a second step.
- May take a long time, though.
-
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