From: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@coritel.it>
To: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it>
Cc: Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com>,
"Douglas, Jim (Jim)" <jdouglas@avaya.com>,
Embedded Linux mailing list <linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: UIO - interrupt performance
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:30:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48FDA13F.3030303@coritel.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <63a49ef40810210201x36249476tcc75141d87a610f2@mail.gmail.com>
I could agree, but "the facto" due to UIO license condition, a company
often uses UIO drivers, regardless performance, debug, etc, only as not
to public the code under GPL.
Alessio Igor Bogani ha scritto:
> Hi All,
>
> Sorry for my (very) bad english.
>
> 2008/10/21 Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@coritel.it>:
> [...]
>> idea. UIO drivers, however, has been inserted mainly for one reason: the
>> problem with GPL, so I prefer, but it's only my opinion, at least for
>> now, to write a "classic" driver if there aren't GPL problems.
>
> No, that isn't the main objective of the UIO Authors.
>
> AFAIK They want achieve:
>
> 1) Fast prototyping for device drivers
> 2) Easy and fast debug
> 3) Avoid "fast and furious" changes of the internal kernel interfaces
> for their drivers
>
> Ciao,
> Alessio
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-21 9:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-20 9:55 UIO - interrupt performance Douglas, Jim (Jim)
2008-10-20 10:28 ` Ben Nizette
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.58.0810200258210.2562@vlab.hofr.at>
2008-10-20 22:12 ` Ben Nizette
2008-10-21 6:57 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2008-10-21 9:32 ` Ben Nizette
2008-10-20 10:30 ` Christian SCHWARZ
2008-10-20 11:55 ` Marco Stornelli
2008-10-20 13:20 ` Paul Mundt
2008-10-20 16:13 ` Bill Gatliff
2008-10-21 8:36 ` Marco Stornelli
2008-10-21 9:01 ` Alessio Igor Bogani
2008-10-21 9:30 ` Marco Stornelli [this message]
2008-10-21 9:37 ` Ben Nizette
2008-10-21 10:24 ` Marco Stornelli
2008-10-21 10:28 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2008-10-21 11:39 ` Bill Gatliff
2008-10-20 12:48 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-10-20 16:25 ` Bill Gatliff
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