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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: WD Ethernet Card not found on warmboot
Message-ID: <1992Aug25.035924.29631@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
References: <1992Aug21.171828.14323@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <1992Aug24.085511.21092@autelca.ascom.ch> <veit.714671205@du9ds3>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 03:59:24 GMT
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In article <veit.714671205@du9ds3> veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de writes:
>DO YOU REALLY NEED THIS?
>Do you modify you hardware once a week, once a
>day or so? UNIX is not that memory restricted like MessDos such that you
>have to unload mouse drivers to get 3 bytes more in the lower 640K if you
>have a large program to run. This loading and unloading considerably
>decreased when I loaded a full featured OS/2, i.e. once the "best" configuration
>was found, I modified CONFIG.SYS only for alteration of paths and
>inclusion of enviroment variables (which has nothing to do with loadable
>device drivers).
This would be a good mechanism for bipartite SCSI drivers. This would let
you have a single small kernel that would load a driver for a SCSI board
based on the results of a probe.
Another use would be loadable file systems, also with an initially small
kernel.
The ability to load system calls buys you, again, a standard kernel with,
as an example, a kernel implementation of variable granularity locks (with
intention modes).
There are lots of things which it would be nice to be able to put in the
kernel, use, and remove.
Terry Lambert
terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
terry@icarus.weber.edu
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