On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Alistair Riddoch wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> > Has anyone tried to add msdos/umsdos fs support to elks?
>
> As far as I know this has not yet been tried. It may turn out to be
> dificult to fit it into ELKS very small memory footprint.
This actually brings up a point which I know was discussed a year or so
ago, which is the big wall of memory consumption that ELKS runs into as
more features get added. While a true microkernel is probably out of the
question, maybe we need to visit a way to put device drivers in user
space. I'm reading a PCMCIA book, and would like to add support for
PCMCIA memory cards to ELKS (HP 200LX here I come), but if that pushes the
kernel to 75Kbytes, then it is futile.
Should I just get the current source and hack it for the existing hard and
floppy disk drivers, or what?
Shane
