Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Sep 2005 12:45:40 +0200 (METDST) | From | Esben Nielsen <> | Subject | Re: kbuild & C++ |
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On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:13:24 +0200, "Budde, Marco" said: > > > E.g. in my case the Windows source code has got more than 10 MB. > > Nobody will convert such an amount of code from C++ to C. > > This would take years. > > Do you have any *serious* intent to drop 10 *megabytes* worth of driver > into the kernel??? (Hint - *everything* in drivers/net/wireless *totals* > to only 2.7M). >
For a special perpose embedded application, doing it all in kernel space would be the first, effective hack.
> A Linux device driver isn't the same thing as a Windows device driver - much of > a Windows driver is considered "userspace" on Linux, and you're free to do that > in C++ if you want. >
Yes, moving stuff to user-space would be the way to go - unless it kills performance!
Esben
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