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Re: Some Hurd and Mach programming questions



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?



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