On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Rene Maroufi <i...@maroufi.net> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 03:32:50PM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: >> I'll comment by saying that developing a storage driver remotely is a >> total pain in the ass bordering impossible. > > Not, if there are 2 hard drives, both connected different (separate > Controllers). My OpenBSD System (amd64, 4.4 stable) runs from the IDE > drive. The SATA drive isn't in use any more.
I think Marco's point was that if there are crashes, lockups, etc, it is a pain in the ass not to have console access, or to be able to unplug the power and reboot into a working config/kernel, etc etc. Even without any development experience I can see that as a pain. There are simply a whole bunch of things that are a pain in the ass without having physical access, and kernel development is one of them. Especially if the chipsets are undocumented or "special" which is what these sound like they are. -- http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk "This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity." -- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation. "Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted." -- Gene Spafford learn french: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1G-3laJJP0&feature=related
