[ros-dev] A new sub-project

[Joseph Galbraith]

Waldo Alvarez Cañizares wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> 
>>It is true that a filesystem that has a usermode component
>>can not be used as a boot driver
> 
> I beleive this is not true. There are operating systems (at
 > least I could name one) with all the drivers running in
 > user mode leaving only a minimal kernel. Is sort of a
 > client-server model, and yes with protection for file/folders.
 > Now the ROS boot loader first loads kernel-hal-fat driver-... It
 > has to, otherwise how would you load the filesystem driver? Now
 > switching  ring 0 <-> ring 3 with that in RAM... If you also load
 > ntdll that way. Hmmm Why not? I beleive that is enought to read/write
 > something to disk.

Hmmm... maybe I misspoke and wasn't clear.

What I meant to say was that a filesystem that
requires a user-mode component can not be the
boot filesystem.

Thanks,

Joseph