Michael Schmitz wrote:
Great (even though, in the light of Geert's explanation of /dev/console, one wonders if console=/dev/tty console=/dev/lp wouldn't have achieved the same :-) - IIRC Petr explained that /dev/lp goes to stderr as well).
It goes there if configured so: [PARALLEL] # Type of parallel port emulation: # file -> Output to file # x86 -> Hardware access under Linux/X86 # parport -> Use /dev/parport device under Linux Type = file # Output to file: filename, stdout, or stderr # File = stdout # File = stderr File = stderr # Linux parport device for Type=parport Parport = /dev/parport0
To be honest, I always thought having IDE emulation in ARAnyM was neat, and i would love to have SCSI emulation as well, for kernel debugging.
we are not going to write the SCSI emulation since we would hardly write it well enough to allow for kernel debugging. FYI, some of the hardware emulation layer I wrote was written in a such way that the linux kernel would boot on it. IOW you can't debug kernel on it :-)
for raw performance, a natfeat block driver would be best. If Petr can provide the natfeat calls to write x blocks at offset y in the disk image (plus odds and ends like get_capacity) I'll provide the rest.
ARAnyM implements an interface used by disk drivers and documented as XHDI, IIRC. I'll try to dig up some documentation on it.
Won't help with testing stuff like "partitioning" the disk image.
The direct partition access I'd like to add to Linux wouldn't help with partitioning either but it can, for example, allows you to map your host /dev/sda3 partition to linux-m68k /dev/hda1 so as soon as you quit ARAnyM you have all Atari linux files fully accessible on your host partition (you can't obviously access it from both inside and outside at the same moment because of filesystem caches etc.)
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