Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:28:59 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm back. Message-ID: <199806261729.KAA07996@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Jun 1998 16:24:12 %2B0200." <Pine.NEB.3.95.980626160737.19831R-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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> Hello, > > Well, I'm back on-line after the first part of my vacations.. :-) It was > really lovely two weeks in Tunisia... > > Now for my nearest plans: > > * I just received a flash disk (16MB, M-Systems, ISA card), thanks to > Goran Hasse of Raditex, SE - I'll be experimenting with it till it starts > working... :-) (i.e. I want to boot from it, and somehow access it to > store the config data). I also plan to read the docs about Linux > implementation of Flash Filesystem (romfs). Any pointers appreciated! If this card has an on-board BIOS, I would be more than happy to help you implement a VM86-based BIOS-disk driver on -current. We have everything in place to make this pretty easy. > One thing that should be discussed before this is the use of DEVFS/SLICE > framework. It mightily simplifies the layout, saves some considerable > space on the MFS, let's you avoid problems with device nodes you > forgot to create, etc... The only problem is that I'm afraid it's not > integrated fully with 2.2.x line... Dinesh? Julian? DEVFS should not be used in 2.2, and SLICE isn't there at all. For a 3.0-based PicoBSD, it's ideal. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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