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

MIG stub code for other programming languages than C (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: > not-yet-existing Mach / MIG RPC call <-> Java interface. This is also a project where someone may want to work on, if Hurd translators / servers in other programming languages than C are desired (and without directly importing the alread

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

Re: writing device drivers in Java

2007-09-18 Thread Thomas Schwinge
l. This allows people to > > write device drivers in java > > Would you like to contribute to or even lead this effort? As people began asking me privately, let me clarify a thing or two here: it's not that you'd just begin writing device drivers in Java. No framework for use