Re: Some ideas for GNUmach2 (oskit-mach)

[Daniel Wagner]

Joachim Nilsson <joachim.nilsson@vmlinux.org> writes:

>       1. Change the OSKit version dependency in configure.in to,
>          at least, NEEDED_OSKIT_VERION=20010214. The changes for

Yes, that's not a bad idea. 

>       2. When I build an optimized kernel, only IDE and one
>          ethernet card, e.g., kernel-ide+ethernet_tulip the installed
>          kernel is not what I opted for.
>          
>          The install_kernel target in the makefile installs kernel,
>          not kernel-ide+ethernet_tulip.

I see another problem with the kernel-DRIVER strategy. Currently a
serial driver is missing for gnumach2. So modem users can't go
online. OSKit has some character drivers, mainly in the FreeBSD part
of the driver libs (liboskit_freebsd_devs). Right now only the
Linux drivers (liboskit_linux_devs) are used for gnumach2. But when we
want to use the char drivers we need to load drivers from FreeBSD. I
don't know if the cool kernel-DRIVER configuration will work anymore.

daniel