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- From: Stephen Usher <Stephen.Usher@earth.ox.ac.uk>
- Subject: Re: Mint Addition
- Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 10:37:11 +0100 (BST)
- In-Reply-To: <2387.9407150840@infbsdb3.idb.cs.tu-bs.de> from "krinke@ips.cs.tu-bs.de" at Jul 15, 94 10:40:31 am
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- >BERNARD Sebastien writes:
- > > Would it be interesting to include some of the driver into the mint code ?
- > > I am proposing such a thing because I think that some features proposed
- > > as extra should become standard to the kernel and use it as if.
- > > [...]
- > > My proposal is to start a discussion about the extension :
- > > - should the extensions be kept extern to the kernel
- > > ou should they be integrated to the kernel and which ones ?
- >I don't think that is good idea --- many MiNT-users don't need the
- >(net-)extensions and the kernel would be bigger as needed.
- >
- >I prefer the opposite way --- remove more things from the kernel to
- >drivers, the 'fasttext'-device for example (I never use it and it is
- >not present in my kernel). That makes the kernel smaller and you
- >don't need to keep different versions of the kernel.
-
- To do this completely we'll need functions to hook into the scheduler, be
- able to get the kernel to vector to a device driver upon an interrupt from a
- peripheral etc. and do this efficently.
-
- We are obviously not there yet as we have to use kludgey solutions such as
- the sld daemon for MiNTnet. The functionality of the sld daemon and other
- such daemons should be able to be set up seemlessly using kernel callbacks
- into device drivers etc. The kernel scheduler itself should be at a lower
- priority than devices so that interrupts are handled as quickly as possible.
-
- >Jens Krinke
- >
- >____________________________________
- >Jens Krinke (krinke@ips.cs.tu-bs.de)
-
- Steve
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