From: Jacek Luczak <difrost.kernel@gmail.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Writing Solaris Device Drivers in Java
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:58:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47F0D201.6030102@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1206959293.8514.636.camel@twins>
Peter Zijlstra pisze:
> On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 10:14 +0800, Peter Teoh wrote:
>> Interesting read:
>>
>> http://research.sun.com/techrep/2006/smli_tr-2006-156.pdf
>>
>> Personal comments:
>>
>> Since KVM and Xen/OpenVZ etc other virtual machines are beginning to pop
>> up - I don't see why it inhibits (in spite of the many initial
>> difficulties as mentioned in the paper) the growth of using Java for
>> device drivers development. Contrast it against udev - esp in terms of
>> usability/supportability/extensibility etc. udev is a Linux thing,
>> whereas Java is at industry level. If everyone write applications
>> device drivers using Java (minus the extreme hardware arch specific
>> stuff, but supports all the low level protocol specific stuff like
>> TCP/IP, NFS, USB etc) then I think it has potential to compete against C
Java? Compete against C? Don't scare embedded devs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-31 12:02 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
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 [this message]
2008-03-31 14:54 ` Peter Teoh
2008-04-01 12:51 ` Daniel Bonekeeper
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