Re: Some Hurd and Mach programming questions
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..
Daniel
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