1 Feb
2002
1 Feb
'02
6:42 a.m.
On Thursday, 31 January 2002 at 20:45:03 +0200, Lauri Aarnio wrote:
In message <02013117091301.00697@linux>, Sven
Dehmlow writes:
To repeat what I said earlier: the hardware-dependent code isn't very
interesting, it's the kernel interfaces. Minix is not UNIX; BSD is.
You'll find it easier to adapt a BSD driver to the Sixth or Seventh
Edition than you will a Minix or Linux driver.
Greg
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On Thursday 31 January 2002 12:00, P.A.Osborne
wrote:
It doesn't matter at all if it is a microkernel or not, if somebody
just needs a reference implementation; How device drivers work or how
the '286 memory management needs to be set up is practically the same;
what matters is that Minix runs in 16-bit protected mode whereas
Linux and *BSD don't. On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:18:06AM +0200, Lauri
Aarnio wrote:
Good than it will be easy for you to take a look into this book and
to find out that Minix is a microkernel. You want to code a
monolithic kernel. Have you considered using Tanenbaum's Minix
as a reference ?
Funnily enough - no. Which was a tad daft as I have a copy
of the original Tanenbaum book on a shelf about 2 feet above
the monitor.... :-) sheepish grin