From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 08:13:54 +0100
From: Nigel Roles ngr@symbionics.co.uk
Subject: indexed directories and the File Server
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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.