Re: plan to work on user-level device drivers

2009-06-26 Thread Da Zheng
Hi, Da Zheng wrote: I just read "An I/O System for Mach 3.0" and realized that the developers of Mach 3.0 actually developed user-level drivers for the Ethernet and the SCSI disk. It is certainly very good news to me, though I need to find them first:-) The user-level Ethernet driver for Mac

[task #9515] _hurd_intr_rpc_mach_msg: Assertion `m->header.msgh_id == msgid + 100' failed.

2009-06-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
URL: Summary: _hurd_intr_rpc_mach_msg: Assertion `m->header.msgh_id == msgid + 100' failed. Project: The GNU Hurd Submitted by: sthibaul Submitted on: ven 26 jun 2009 23:03:41 CEST Cat

Re: plan to work on user-level device drivers

2009-06-26 Thread Da Zheng
Hi, Barry deFreese wrote: Yay!! Someone is finally tackling this!! I have been looking at DDEKit, XNUs IOKit, and some others. I don't know shite but if I can be of any help, let me know! Thank you, Barry. I will definitely turn you for help. The problem is that I don't have much experiment

Re: plan to work on user-level device drivers

2009-06-26 Thread Barry deFreese
Da Zheng wrote: Hi, I am thinking about writing user-level device drivers. When I searched Internet, I found the paper "An Architecture for Device Drivers Executing as User-Level Tasks" written by David B. Golub, Guy G. Sotomayor and Freeman L. Rawson, III. It might be exactly what I want bu