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From: "Alessio Igor Bogani" <abogani@texware.it>
Subject: Re: UIO - interrupt performance
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:01:19 +0200
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To: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@coritel.it>
Cc: Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com>, "Douglas, Jim (Jim)" <jdouglas@avaya.com>, Embedded Linux mailing list <linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org>

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