From: Manu Abraham <abraham.manu@gmail.com>
To: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
Cc: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Simple userspace interface for PCI drivers
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 01:33:54 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44F755C2.8090007@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1157059114.24286.7.camel@bip.parateam.prv>
Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Le jeudi 31 août 2006 à 17:12 -0400, Lee Revell a écrit :
>> On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 22:58 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
>>> Precisely. How do you know the bugreport you received isn't caused by
>>> some weird binary userspace driver hosing the PCI bus ?
>> Can't X, or any application that access hardware directly by
>> mmaping /dev/mem, do this now?
>
> Yes they can, but X's behavior is pretty well known by now :) and it's
> open source.
>
what about binary drivers in kernel like nVidia or ATI ?
Well above all, user-space drivers can be of help in a lot of other
ways. An example is rapid prototyping. Some times it makes sense as well
to do in user-space, where you can really control things. Drivers using
math is an example
Manu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-31 21:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-30 6:23 [RFC] Simple userspace interface for PCI drivers Greg KH
2006-08-30 10:09 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-08-30 14:34 ` Matt Porter
2006-08-30 16:25 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-08-30 17:55 ` Greg KH
2006-08-30 20:32 ` Foli Ayivoh
2006-08-30 21:01 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2006-08-30 21:25 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-08-30 22:08 ` Greg KH
2006-09-01 1:36 ` Brice Goglin
2006-09-01 3:22 ` Greg KH
2006-09-01 3:37 ` Brice Goglin
2006-09-01 4:27 ` Greg KH
2006-08-31 13:49 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-01 18:16 ` Greg KH
2006-08-30 17:07 ` Manu Abraham
2006-08-30 17:52 ` Greg KH
2006-08-30 22:50 ` Manu Abraham
2006-08-31 0:17 ` Greg KH
2006-08-31 13:24 ` Manu Abraham
2006-08-31 22:42 ` Greg KH
2006-08-31 7:40 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-31 8:05 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-08-31 8:30 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-08-31 20:39 ` Lee Revell
2006-08-31 20:53 ` Chris Friesen
2006-08-31 21:39 ` Greg KH
2006-08-31 20:58 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-08-31 21:12 ` Lee Revell
2006-08-31 21:18 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-08-31 21:33 ` Manu Abraham [this message]
2006-08-31 21:40 ` Greg KH
2006-09-01 21:17 ` Pavel Machek
2006-09-03 8:34 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-09-12 19:47 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-09-14 5:57 ` Greg KH
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