Re: problems with blkio

To: emsi@ipartners.pl, stoller@fast.cs.utah.edu
Subject: Re: problems with blkio
From: Mike Hibler <mike@fast.cs.utah.edu>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 09:37:02 -0700 (MST)
Cc: oskit-users@fast.cs.utah.edu
Sender: owner-oskit-users@fast.cs.utah.edu

> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 08:25:57 -0800
> From: Leigh Stoller <stoller@fast.cs.utah.edu>
> To: Mariusz Woloszyn <emsi@ipartners.pl>
> Subject: Re: problems with blkio
> 
> > From: Mariusz Woloszyn <emsi@ipartners.pl>
> > Subject: problems with blkio
> > Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 16:59:28 +0100 (EET)
> > 
> > p.s.2. I need start_fs for rtld library which seems to depend on blkio
> > interface... (?)
> 
> Here is a version of start_fs that uses the linux filesystem instead of the
> bsd filesystem. It should set everything up so that RTLD works okay.  See
> the start_linux_fs() routine at the end. Look at
> examples/x86/more/netbsd_fs_posix.c, and search for start_fs(). You would,
> for example, change that call to start_fs() to start_linux_fs().
> 
> Lbs

There should already be a start_linux_fs_on_blkio routine in the startup
library.  If you are going through start_world instead, then you will have
to modify that routine to use start_linux_fs_on_blkio rather than the
currently hardwired start_fs_on_blkio.