Hi Adam,
Thanks for your reply.
--- Adam Lackorzynski adam@os.inf.tu-dresden.de wrote:
You can take the demo floppy image as a basis (http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/drops/download/). Using qemu is much more comfortable.
I tested the demo floppy on an old PIII desktop, and it booted fine. I also mounted it on my laptop and changed the images to the one I compiled (names, log, sigma0, rmgr, hello,...), and tested it on the desktop, and it worked fine.
Another way to test things is Fiasco-UX, that's a Fiasco running on Linux. When you say Linux drivers, do you mean DDE or L4Linux?
I don't want to go through any virtualization/emulation/simulation.
Is it possible to write an application and device drivers (user-space) that interact directly with fiasco? Are there any simple hello-world kind of examples or documentation for this?
I have been looking for a microkernel to work/test directly with hardware. I don't need any fancy GUIs. Even a console with VGA output is fine.
We haven't been hacking big drivers from scratch, for obvious reasons. There's at least a master thesis on DDE (but it's in german).
I don't know German :(
SK
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