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Minix code is fun to play with
Minix code is fun to play with
Posted Oct 27, 2005 11:07 UTC (Thu) by davidw (subscriber, #947)Parent article: The return of Minix
A couple of years ago, I wrote an article on the eCos operating system, and as part of the demo project, I needed a floppy driver to grab data from the floppy. I looked at Linux and then some BSD code first, but found it to be very wrapped up in the rest of the system, and a bit thick in any case, as it tried to handle any sort of floppyish device that anyone might throw at it. At that point I though... hrm, I'll check out the Minix book. And sure enough, it was cleaner and easier to integrate - I had a working (well, read only, which is all I needed) floppy driver in a day or two. The project that I ended up creating was "Scivoli":
http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/ecos.html
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