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From: Nigel Roles ngr@symbionics.co.uk
Subject: indexed directories and the File Server
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 08:13:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19970711071354.mIEw5q8IZaTRFJ54zVhlDx-OBYujUMMW0UNcnoB_bhU@z> (raw)

Further, making a driver FS/CPU dual compilable is not hard. I didn't do
a very tidy job on the NCR SCSI driver, but it didn't touch much. In
fact, it also compiles for the BeBox which needs to distinguish DMA
space, kernal space, and physical space.

>-----Original Message-----
>From:	jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com [SMTP:jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com]
>Sent:	Friday, July 11, 1997 12:56 AM
>To:	9fans@cse.psu.edu
>Subject:	Re: indexed directories and the File Server
>
>	It would be nice if the file server could reuse
>	drivers from the term/cpu kernel.
>
>After the last filesytem go-round at the beginning of this
>year the drivers became very similar to those of the main kernel.
>I've actually worked out how to make them the same but it's not
>implemented yet. The overall plan would be to make the bootstrap,
>Brazil, Inferno and fileserver drivers all the same, currently
>only the Brazil and our Inferno drivers are.
>
>Of course, none of this helps you at the moment.




             reply	other threads:[~1997-07-11  7:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-07-11  7:13 Nigel [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1997-07-11  0:44 beto
1997-07-10 23:56 jmk
1997-07-10 22:16 beto
1997-07-10 21:15 G.David

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