Re: Userspace HD Drivers.

2001-11-06 Thread Roland McGrath
> The problem is that the driver exists in OSKit and doesn't work on the > test kernels. Two others have emailed the list about the same > problem, and there has been no response. Well, you gets what you pays for. Has anyone tried to debug it? Have you checked the state of the oskit driver vs

Re: Userspace HD Drivers.

2001-11-06 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 04:18:31PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: > Multiboot loading is the least of your troubles in implementing a > user-space driver. If your only motivation is to support this device, > then porting a Linux driver to oskit is by far your most efficient choice. The problem is

Re: Userspace HD Drivers.

2001-11-06 Thread Roland McGrath
Multiboot loading is the least of your troubles in implementing a user-space driver. If your only motivation is to support this device, then porting a Linux driver to oskit is by far your most efficient choice. ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTE

Userspace HD Drivers.

2001-11-06 Thread Jeff Bailey
Under the new sexy way of doing things, we load ext2fs as a multiboot module, right? Would I be able to load a userspace Harddrive driver that way? OSKit doesn't support my adaptec controller, and doesn't look like it will any time soon (no response on support forums when people have asked befor