On Sunday 05 Jun 2005 22:21, Marty wrote: > Funny you should mention it. > > I've been seriously considering writing or porting a driver for Hurd, just > to get an idea of what microkernels are all about, and hopefully even help > get the Hurd microkernel into wider usage. Does anyone have any advice or > comments?
I'm not exactly knowledgeable with HURD, but I tried it out once. it seems like an interesting project, which I'm hoping to get more into soon. The reason I suggested HURD is that driver development for it is much less like developing drivers, and more like regular programming. If the driver crashes, you might have a chance to just kill it, fix the bug, and restart a new driver process. It would probably speed development. Also, since the code would probably be cleaner, and more developers do work on Linux etc., people would probably port your work to Linux anyway. I'd suggest asking more on one of the HURD lists. Debian has a HURD list, and I think there are a number of other lists just for HURD development. The L4 HURD list probably isn't ready for modem drivers yet, but I expect the other lists would welcome your efforts. There's also a #hurd IRC channel on freenode, if I recall correctly. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
