On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:13:24 +0200, "Budde, Marco" said: > > > E.g. in my case the Windows source code has got more than 10 MB. > > Nobody will convert such an amount of code from C++ to C. > > This would take years. > > Do you have any *serious* intent to drop 10 *megabytes* worth of driver > into the kernel??? (Hint - *everything* in drivers/net/wireless *totals* > to only 2.7M). >
For a special perpose embedded application, doing it all in kernel space would be the first, effective hack. > A Linux device driver isn't the same thing as a Windows device driver - much > of > a Windows driver is considered "userspace" on Linux, and you're free to do > that > in C++ if you want. > Yes, moving stuff to user-space would be the way to go - unless it kills performance! Esben - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
