From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Writing Solaris Device Drivers in Java
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:12:17 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1206951137.10388.141.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47F0491F.4050804@gmail.com>
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 10:14 +0800, Peter Teoh wrote:
> Interesting read:
>
> http://research.sun.com/techrep/2006/smli_tr-2006-156.pdf
>
> Personal comments:
>
> Since KVM and Xen/OpenVZ etc other virtual machines are beginning to pop
> up - I don't see why it inhibits (in spite of the many initial
> difficulties as mentioned in the paper) the growth of using Java for
> device drivers development. Contrast it against udev - esp in terms of
> usability/supportability/extensibility etc. udev is a Linux thing,
> whereas Java is at industry level. If everyone write applications
> device drivers using Java (minus the extreme hardware arch specific
> stuff, but supports all the low level protocol specific stuff like
> TCP/IP, NFS, USB etc) then I think it has potential to compete against C
> lang - the monopolizer till today in the kernel world
> (Windows/MacOS/Linux/BSD etc). Ie, imagine using a drivers written for
> the Solaris in Linux, won't it be cool?
You're off by one day for an April fool...
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-31 8:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-31 2:14 RFC: Writing Solaris Device Drivers in Java Peter Teoh
2008-03-31 2:59 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2008-03-31 3:13 ` Al Viro
2008-03-31 15:18 ` Peter Teoh
2008-03-31 15:52 ` Peter Teoh
2008-03-31 16:20 ` Ioan Ionita
2008-03-31 3:10 ` David Miller
2008-03-31 5:56 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-03-31 8:48 ` David Newall
2008-03-31 8:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2008-03-31 10:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-03-31 10:45 ` Wander Winkelhorst
2008-03-31 11:58 ` Jacek Luczak
2008-03-31 14:54 ` Peter Teoh
2008-04-01 12:51 ` Daniel Bonekeeper
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