From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Larmour To: Andrew Over Cc: Andrew Lunn , ecos-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: [ECOS] File access under linux synthetic target Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 06:29:00 -0000 Message-id: <38E89CA7.432FBDD4@redhat.co.uk> References: <20000403213309.A16014@boh.localnet> <200004031209.OAA20028@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch> <20000403231359.A16300@boh.localnet> X-SW-Source: 2000-04/msg00010.html Andrew Over wrote: > > My goal is just to come up with a quick hack that'll let me get at the > host file system using a few syscalls, but I figure I may as well do > it in some way that might be useful to others :) Cool, although we (Red Hat) are already making the first steps towards this as part of our initiative to implement the EL/IX level 1 API ( http://sourceware.cygnus.com/elix ) in eCos. This will very much be an open development, and once we get a few more details thrashed out, we would encourage you to help out in any places you feel like. There'll be more of this shortly! Andrew Lunn wrote: > File systems support is something that comes up quite often on the > mail list, probably second to TCP/IP. Now that TCP/IP is in beta, i > personally think this is the next thing RedHat should work on. Not the > file systems themselves, but the generic part, libc down to the > generic interface to the file system. I don't think they should work > on specific filesystems since the requirements are so wide, FLASH, > NFS, RAM Discs and even real drives. Let people contribute such file > systems, or contract RedHat for a specific filesystem. Specifying the > generic interface is the important thing or we will end up with lots > of incompatible file systems. That's exactly what the group here thinks too. In saying that, a RAM-based FS or something would be a useful starting place as a proof of concept, and for testing, if nothing else. But with the implementation of "full" CDL, we now have the functionality available from the configuration system to support proper plug-in filesystems cleanly. More shortly... Jifl -- Red Hat, 35 Cambridge Place, Cambridge, UK. CB2 1NS Tel: +44 (1223) 728762 "Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow." || These opinions are all my own fault