- 99% of the code is Intel's ACPICA. The license is compliant with BSD
and GNU and virtually all systems that use ACPI use this code, For
instance it is part of the Linux kernel.
- The only minix specific files are
acpi.c
osminixxf.c
platform/acminix.h
and
include/minix/acpi.h
- At the moment the driver does not register interrupt hooks which I
believe is mainly for handling PnP, events like "battery level is
low" and power management. Should not be difficult to add it if need
be.
- The interface to the outside world is virtually non-existent except
a trivial message based service for PCI driver to query which device
is connected to what IRQ line. This will evolve as more components
start using this driver. VM, Scheduler and IOMMU are the possible
users right now.
- because of dependency on a native 64bit (long long, part of c99) it
is compiled only with a gnu-like compilers which in case of Minix
includes gcc llvm-gcc and clang
- check the DF status flag after each command
- increase I/O timeout from 15 to 30 seconds
- share some code between ATA and ATAPI after all
- produce more accurate errors on DIOCEJECT
- rename AHCI_ID_SIZE to the more appropriate ATA_ID_SIZE
- rearrange ahci.h in a now more sensible way
patch to allow MINIX to boot from ext2.
To create a setup with MINIX on ext2, follow these steps:
- Assumptions:
- there exists a primary partition c0dApB with a MINIX installation
with GRUB support (/boot/image_latest exists on /dev/c0dApB)
- there exists a free primary partition c0dCpD
- Create an ext2 filesystem on c0dApB (from Linux, until Tthom
has ported mke2fs)
- Follow these steps (from a MINIX CD with ext2 support, another MINIX
installation (not c0dApB) or Linux >= 2.6.35):
mkdir /mnt/mfs /mnt/ext2
mount /dev/c0dApBs0 /mnt/mfs
mount /dev/c0dApBs1 /mnt/mfs/home
mount /dev/c0dApBs2 /mnt/mfs/usr
mount /dev/c0dCpD /mnt/ext2
synctree -f /mnt/mfs /mnt/ext2
echo root=/dev/c0dCpD > /mnt/ext2/etc/fstab
(note: no subpartitions used because that would confuse an unmodified
bootloader)
- Add the new MINIX installation to GRUB according to steps 7&8 in
http://wiki.minix3.org/en/SummerOfCode2010/MultiBoot/HowTo
This eliminates a race condition between the disk driver calling
sys_statectl(SYS_STATE_CLEAR_IPC_REFS) as part of driver_announce(),
and the root MFS calling sendrec(DEV_OPEN) on the disk driver.
