Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: GSoC proposal, device driver glue code]

2007-03-26 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:49:40PM -0400, Barry deFreese wrote: > how hard would it be to generalize the "glue layer" and let us load > drivers as modules instead? Not sure what you mean. Generalize in what regard? -antrik- ___ Bug-hurd mailing

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: GSoC proposal, device driver glue code]

2007-03-23 Thread Barry deFreese
Richard Braun wrote: On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 05:58:57PM -0300, Matheus Morais wrote: I had learning a bit about Linux 2.6 device drivers and I share of the same opinion from syn. I could see a _lot_ of work to update the glue code. My question is, update to Linux 2.6 device drivers is more fe

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: GSoC proposal, device driver glue code]

2007-03-23 Thread Anastassios A. Nanos
at first, thank you all for you kind comments and for the time you spent reading my proposal. I will try to be as precise as possible. Something missing in this proposal is how to deal with runtime changes, especially for USB devices. that's true. there are a lot of things missing mostly

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: GSoC proposal, device driver glue code]

2007-03-23 Thread Richard Braun
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 05:58:57PM -0300, Matheus Morais wrote: > I had learning a bit about Linux 2.6 device drivers and I share of the same > opinion from syn. I could see a _lot_ of work to update the glue code. My > question is, update to Linux 2.6 device drivers is more feasible than write > a

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: GSoC proposal, device driver glue code]

2007-03-23 Thread Matheus Morais
On 3/23/07, Richard Braun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I like this proposal but I also have a question : did you consider BSD drivers ? I understand you have experience with Linux drivers, and this is a very good reason to work on a glue code for them, but from what I could see (at least this was

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: GSoC proposal, device driver glue code]

2007-03-23 Thread Richard Braun
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 12:49:28AM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > Hello Okuji and Richard! > > May I ask you to have a look at the attached email and especially the url > referenced in there, ? > This application makes a rather profound impression t

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: GSoC proposal, device driver glue code]

2007-03-22 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Friday 23 March 2007 00:49, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > Hello Okuji and Richard! > > May I ask you to have a look at the attached email and especially the url > referenced in there, ? > This application makes a rather profound impression to me. > > Fe