From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Sun Dec 12 22:37:56 2004 X-Original-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Delivered-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Message-ID: <41BCB9E4.2080109@seznam.cz> Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 16:36:36 -0500 From: Standa Opichal User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mint@fishpool.com Subject: Re: [MiNT] Block device driver interface References: <41B82736.4000909@gabo.pl> <41B85705.9080009@gabo.pl> <41B94AAE.9010900@gabo.pl> <41B96ED5 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-To: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: opichals@seznam.cz Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 tagged_above=-50.5 required=3.8 tests=BAYES_00 X-Spam-Level: Hi! Frank Naumann wrote: >> My idea is to create /dev/hdX devices > > This is userspace visible thing and have not much todo with kernel > internal implementation. Right, OK. >> that would use a common XHDI block device driver implementation driver >> (parametrized) that would be an implementation of the interface to be >> designed. I suppose we want to replace the buffer cache calls away >> from the filesystems implementation and instead use the new interface >> there. > > I'm sure you wont like todo that. The filesystems are already device > independant as they only use the buffer cache for I/O. The current > buffer cache use at the moment XHDI and as fallback BIOS. Yes, I found out this at the end... > Just sort out these things and modify the buffer cache to use a new > block device driver interface. Yeah. Standa