Re: more newbie questions...

To: "David G. Andersen" <danderse@cs.utah.edu>
Subject: Re: more newbie questions...
From: Ramon van Handel <vhandel@chem.vu.nl>
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 23:38:19 +0200
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Organization: Chemistry Department, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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David G. Andersen wrote:
> 
> Lo and Behold, Groman said:
> > Hi...sorry for bothering you...but I have several more questions:
> > 1) Since floppy driver is not implemented,  how would I go about
> > doing this stuff myself, I need to be able to write/read ext2fs
> > from the floppy. Of course, I can just read the whole floppy directly
> > into memory, but then I won't be able to use OSkit's file system
> > libraries, right?
> 
>   Right.  You'd need to write or port a floppy driver to the OSkit
> framework.  Some suitable candidates would (obviously) be the FreeBSD,
> NetBSD, or Linux floppy drivers.  Be warned - it could be a pretty
> messy thing to do.

Have you ever considered porting VSTA drivers ?
Though not always as effieicnt as linux/*BSD drivers, I do
often find them inspiring if I need some example driver
code beside specs, and don't feel like wading though tremendous
piles of unreadable linux driver code (I'm very tempted to say
'mess' :)).
For a floppy, I guess performance wouldn't matter very much
anyway...

I'd be willing to have a go at it, but I've never actually
written anything that works with the OSKit.  What does porting
a driver to the OSKit involve ?

Ramon

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