Re: [address@hidden: Interface for SCSI transactions ?]

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 09:05:40AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:

> The test machine is a 4x 64 bit AMD with ethernet on mainboard.
> >From /var/log/messages of Debian 5:
>   r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK-NAPI loaded
>   eth0: RTL8168c/8111c at 0xffffc20000630000, [...]

If the network adapter is supported by Linux 2.6.29, it should be
possible to get it working with the DDE userspace driver framework. This
is a bit non-trivial to set up though...

SATA is more of a problem.

Also, first thing you should use the installer CD to test whether Mach
even boots on your machine... Otherwise there is obviously no chance of
running the Hurd natively :-)

> Can this be circumvented by running Hurd on a virtual machine ?

Yes, a VM can be used to work around the ethernet problem. It can also
be used to work around the SATA problem for the system disk.

However, you still need a way to access the actual burner... I don't
really know, but I rather doubt that any VM solution actually exposes
the host system's burner to the guest system as an ATAPI device
connected to a virtual PATA controller...

If your machine supports IO virtualisation (IIRC AMD simply calls that
IOMMU), you *might* be able to use a real PATA burner, and give the
guest system direct access to the the PATA controller it is connected
to. Don't know though whether this really works...

-antrik-