On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 03:27:59PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 05:56:58PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > Mark Kettenis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > 8. > > > Does it make any sense to move most device drivers (scsi/ide) > > > from Mach to user-space. > > > I suppose than PCI bus etc. would still need to be in kernel. > > > > > > I suppose that you'll always need some basic support for a disk device > > > in the Mach kernel. Some other device drivers might be moved out to > > > > Why would PCI bus have to be in the kernel? Why would you need support > > for a disk device in the kernel? > > The first thing that springs to mind is that if you lack a disk device you > may > have some difficulty in loading the server which provides it, in paging it in > or out, etc..
GRUB can load this server.
