Re: [oc] I need a BUS! =)

[Alan Grimes <alangrimes@starpower.net>]

> Since you are already in the process of designing your own kernel,

Kernel is history, I just can't get it to run on the x86 due to all the
kludge and hidden manuals (ever go looking for the official docs on the
8042?)

> os, compiler and computer. Have you considered designing your own bus 
> protocol that is "in tune" with your system? It should be trivial 
> compared to what you are currently working on.

No, it isn't I'm not a low-level hardware weenie... 
I don't have the EE background to do it right, know all the tradeoffs.
I can design the processing modules, but the interconnect can take
several forms and it is not immediately relevant to the core of what I
am working on. Since I am hoping that you will do the PCI 2.1-64 and the
pci-pci bridge, I'm going to let you do just about anything you want,
just so long as it doesn't break any of the things I want to do...
(COMA), multiple topologies.. (the first generation will be a single BUS
thugh more advanced versions may use multiple buses and a routing
system, or some kind of fiber optic interconnect.) 

I just need it so that it can swap pages and talk to the Perifferal bus.

-- 
Perhaps I will upgrade my OS from Win 3.11...
But It has to be more sophisticated than Win 3.11.
As well as less complicated than Win 3.11.
*AND* It must run on THE MACHINE!!!!
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