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Re: /dev translator
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Jeroen Dekkers |
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Re: /dev translator |
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Wed, 22 May 2002 12:54:34 +0200 |
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On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 09:05:32PM +0200, Niklas H?glund wrote:
> Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 10:20:27AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > Someone wrote:
> > > > Have you thought about writing a translator for /dev itself, rather
> > > > than using a script to populate a directory? devfs the Hurd way.
> > >
> > > Certainly we have. I think this is ultimately the Right Thing, in
> > > fact.
> >
> > I've just wondered myself about it, but I am not sure how this would be
> > done best.
>
> Something I would like is complete autodetection of hardware. It'd be
> cool if a /dev translator could read /usr/share/discover/pci.lst (or
> whatever) and add subnodes with translators for those devices.
>
> Alternatively, some tool like discover could be ported to the Hurd to do
> this to a /dev filesystem.
We should have user-space device drivers which live in /dev. Then a
lot of things are possible you probably aren't even thinking of.
> In the long run I'd like to be able to take a bootable CD with the Hurd on
> it, boot it in any modern i386 computer and get a complete configured
> system with a configured X server, mouse, keyboard, scanner, ...
<AOL>Me too!</AOL>
It's just that a lot of work needs to be done for this.
> Then, with some networked filesystem, we've got a truly mobile office :)
Yes, distributed computing is cool. :)
Jeroen Dekkers
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