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- Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 11:08:40 +0200
- From: Thomas Schulze <ts@uni-paderborn.de>
- Message-Id: <199404270908.AA28928@djerba.uni-paderborn.de>
- To: itschere@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
- Subject: Re: split biosfs.c into several XDD's?
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- > 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
- > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL17]
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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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