erd@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ethan R Dicks) (10/04/90)
I have a WEDGE PC/XT I/O card adapter on the Amiga. There are several other adapters (SPIRIT-506, Palomax and the like) which map PC-XT disk controllers into Amiga memory space. Instead of IO instructions, the driver for AmigaDOS uses memory access instructions. I am using a real DTC-5150 on my A1000 and a real DTC-5160 on the A500. Is the hard disk driver for PC-Minix written in Assembler, C or both? If I buy a license for Amiga-Minix, will I be allowed to port the PC-Minix driver? The card is the same, only the individual access instructions would need to be changed (plus the instruction set, of course ;-) The logic flow of the driver would remain intact. Comments, suggestions? I was planning on buying Amiga-Minix, but with the MC680x0 restriction and the bad boot disk, I am glad I have waited so far. If I can get hard drive support for minimal effort (I am capable of porting the driver), that would push me over the edge. -ethan
raymond@cs.vu.nl (Raymond Michiels) (10/04/90)
erd@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ethan R Dicks) writes: >Is the hard disk driver for PC-Minix written in Assembler, C or both? If >I buy a license for Amiga-Minix, will I be allowed to port the PC-Minix >driver? The hard disk driver if written in C, and yes: you may port the PC-Minix driver. You are even encouraged to do so. >Comments, suggestions? Buy AmigaMINIX, port the PC-Minix driver and post it to the net... >I was planning on buying Amiga-Minix, but with the MC680x0 restriction >and the bad boot disk, I am glad I have waited so far. The bad boot disk isn't really that much of a problem: we have include an extra copy of the mangled file (the kernel image) on the AmigaMINIX boot disk. -Raymond.