Re: Some Hurd and Mach programming questions
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 03:27:59PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 05:56:58PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <edmundo@rano.org> was heard to say:
> > Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>:
> >
> > > 8.
> > > Does it make any sense to move most device drivers (scsi/ide)
> > > from Mach to user-space.
> > > I suppose than PCI bus etc. would still need to be in kernel.
> > >
> > > I suppose that you'll always need some basic support for a disk device
> > > in the Mach kernel. Some other device drivers might be moved out to
> >
> > Why would PCI bus have to be in the kernel? Why would you need support
> > for a disk device in the kernel?
>
> The first thing that springs to mind is that if you lack a disk device you may
> have some difficulty in loading the server which provides it, in paging it in
> or out, etc..
GRUB can load this server.
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