Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:56:29 +0200 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: Userspace I/O driver core |
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Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 12:46 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> >>>> I understand one still has to write a kernel driver to shut up the irq. >>>> How about writing a small bytecode interpreter to make event than >>>> unnecessary? >>>> >>>> >>> if you do that why not do a real driver. >>> >>> >>> >> An entire driver in bytecode? >> > > no a real, non-bytecode driver. > >
Isn't the whole point of uio is to avoid writing a kernel mode driver?
As proposed, it doesn't quite accomplish it. With an additional bytecode interpreter, you can have a 100% userspace driver (the bytecode interpreter would be part of uio, not the driver).
-- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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