From: "Dwayne C. Litzenberger" <dlitz@dlitz.net>
To: Phil Thompson <Phil.Thompson@pace.co.uk>
Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: User Space Emulation of Devices
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 21:53:50 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010912215350.B2866@zed.dlitz.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54045BFDAD47D5118A850002A5095CC30AC57D@exchange1.cam.pace.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <54045BFDAD47D5118A850002A5095CC30AC57D@exchange1.cam.pace.co.uk>
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On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:25:08AM +0100, Phil Thompson wrote:
> Without going into the gory details, I have a requirement for a device
> driver that does very little apart from pass on the open/close/read/write
> "requests" onto a user space application to implement and pass back to the
> driver.
>
> Does anything like this already exist?
I think the HURD does something like this. I can't say any more than that,
since I haven't actually run it yet. :-)
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Dwayne C. Litzenberger - dlitz@dlitz.net
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-13 3:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-06 8:25 User Space Emulation of Devices Phil Thompson
2001-09-06 12:14 ` joseph.bueno
2001-09-12 10:28 ` Pavel Machek
2001-09-12 21:45 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-09-12 22:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-09-12 22:34 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-13 18:13 ` Tim Jansen
2001-09-14 4:31 ` Jeremy Elson
2001-09-13 3:53 ` Dwayne C. Litzenberger [this message]
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2001-09-13 8:25 Phil Thompson
2001-09-13 18:33 ` Tim Jansen
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