Hi, On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Joachim Nilsson wrote:
> > In Linux there is the kernel parameters to decide what ethernet card > gets to be eth0 and any other one automatically gets called eth1. > Is there any such kernel parameter to GNUmach when I call it from > grub, or do I have to build myself a new kernel? > > My setup is two ISA cards, one 3c509 and one NE2000. In Linux the > 3c509 automatically (without any specific kernel parameters) gets > to be eth0 (@irq 9) and the NE2000 is my eth1 (@irq 5). In GNUmach > it's the reversed, what dictates the order in Mach? As much as I appreciate some aspects of the Hurd's design, I must say I never really saw the point of having a microkernel if it doesn't allow you to implement drivers as services. Today's hardware is so much of a moving target, that having drivers in separate processes would be a huge boon, especially considering the fact how much easier it would be for those untrusted 3rd parties (hardware manufacturers ;-) to write and debug drivers if they are just standard process using the standard user mode API. The only popular OS I know that gets this right is QNX, but sadly it's proprietary as hell. Just my (offtopic) 2c... Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies / Emile van Bergen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 | http://www.e-advies.info -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
