Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/05/19:43:50
Once upon a time (on 5 Feb 97 at 0:00) mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on. said:
> > Nope. IBMDOS.COM should be kept as small as possible, and how do you
> > imagine adding up new file systems? Recompile IBMDOS.COM every time!?
>
> Only takes me an hour to recompile a Linux kernel. Recompiling a
> DOS kernel surely would only take 10-15 minutes.
Hmm... to recompile Linux kernel you use *only* one compiler (excluding
assemblers) and *one* linker (well, two...).
To recompile OpenDOS you'd have to install 5 different commercial tools, and
that takes both time when compiling and space when installing.
> > Now, that's the way to go! But, once again, we have to develop a standard
> > for these drivers.
>
> Yep. Sounds good to me. With conditional compilation, one could
> compile support for a driver either directly into the kernel, or
> as a loadable module, or a dumb .SYS or .DRV file in config.sys.
I've started to design a sample format for such a dynamically loadable module
that'd plug neatly into kernel (but don't worry, it won't be Plug & Pray(tm)
;-))
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