Re: Linux, X, ld, gcc, linking, shared libraries and stuff

Beth wrote:

First, I appologise. My new news server obviously didn't register this
post (probably because it's too big) so I'm replying through Google
Groups. I'll make note to scrap that server later.

> it all depends what you're "targetting" exactly

Just for the sake of definning it, my target is desktop x86 PCs. Why
x86? Simple, because I don't have anything else to test it on!

> BUT, you could also, for example, have a "RAM disk"

Yet another thing I didn't think of.

> No, no...it's very simple..._THAT_ is why you _ask_ the OS to load
the
> drivers...

On re-evaluation, I thought the driver itself would be what works with
the firewall. (i.e. The DO for the connection calls the DO for the
firewall, rather than the OS passing stuff to the firewall, which
passes stuff to the connection.) What you're doing is asking for
interception, which, now that I think about it, could be used
elsewhere, though it's use in other areas isn't likely to be often.

> > On the subject of networking, is anyone else annoyed by the level
of
> > network transparency in Linux. I know it's derived from UNIX, which
has
> > to be network transparent, but I find it annoying for a simple
desktop.
> > Anyone else agree?
>
> First, Linux is a kernel...X is the GUI...

I'm talking about the network transparency of Linux, not X.
Specifically, how Linux is typically setup bugs me. Wannabee summed it
up nicely, "linuxmachine new everything about windows machine, before
windows machine even knew its own name." (I was LOL-ing at that one,
half the reason being, he's probably telling the truth.) Linux is
defaulted (hard-wired?) to opening the LAN/Internet automatically. I do
NOT like that. If I want the LAN/Internet up, I'll *tell* the system
that. Otherwise, don't bring it up.

> [snip - lots of misunderstanding]

> Increasingly, the usefulness of the real mode BIOS to a protected
mode OS
> is questionable...

I must really be bad at explaining what I mean. I was thinking of the
using the real-mode BIOS to tell me what hardware is attached and what
not. I came up with this:

There's a specific interrupt which AoA-16 identified its use as the
"are you there" interrupt. I was thinking of the OS calling that with
the location of a block of memory and having the chained interrupts
writting out a little info about what hardware they represent.
Specifically, they'd probably return a port, a command to send there,
and a size to have reserved. The OS could send the command to the port
and then send the address of a block of memory of that size. The
hardware would then copy the code for its driver into that location.

I know, probably bad, but I came up with that is little time.

> Beth :)

NoDot (from Google)

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