Re: User-space device drivers: ``interface to interrupt hardware'' (was: writing device drivers in Java)

2007-09-23 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
At Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:09:15 +0200, Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm also interested in that, I may add. I was -- already some months > ago; then I had to interrupt because of more stringent issues taking over > -- thinking about attempting such a project, starting with reading pap

Re: User-space device drivers: ``interface to interrupt hardware''

2007-09-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schwinge, le Thu 20 Sep 2007 17:21:03 +0200, a écrit : > On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 02:22:00PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What is Minix doing? > > > > Minix 3 uses user-level drivers. In some cases, when a transient > > failure affects

Re: User-space device drivers: ``interface to interrupt hardware''

2007-09-20 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 02:22:00PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What is Minix doing? > > Minix 3 uses user-level drivers. In some cases, when a transient > failure affects a driver process, it may be restarted. That I already knew about

Re: User-space device drivers: ``interface to interrupt hardware''

2007-09-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is Minix doing? Minix 3 uses user-level drivers. In some cases, when a transient failure affects a driver process, it may be restarted. See, for instance: J. Herder et al., "Construction of a Highly Dependable Operating System", http:

User-space device drivers: ``interface to interrupt hardware'' (was: writing device drivers in Java)

2007-09-18 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 08:58:56PM +0200, I wrote: > No framework for user-space device drivers exists so far. This has to > be designed and impemented first > If someone is still interested in working on this user space device > driver effort, then go for it! I'm also interested in that