From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Writing Solaris Device Drivers in Java
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:13:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080331031326.GJ9785@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1JgAEe-0006hb-00@calista.eckenfels.net>
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:59:00AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> In article <47F0491F.4050804@gmail.com> you wrote:
> > (Windows/MacOS/Linux/BSD etc). Ie, imagine using a drivers written for
> > the Solaris in Linux, won't it be cool?
>
> I think the device driver reuse between the various C-kernels is pretty big.
> For efficiency and since the low level stuff is a major part of device
> drivers, I cant see a Java solution. I guess we would see drivers in Forth before :)
Don't forget assembler converted to binary by bash(1) and a stunning
innovation of . added in front of directory names...
[if you want to summon you-know-what, might as well do that properly]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-31 3:13 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 [this message]
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
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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