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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:56:29 +0200
From: Avi Kivity <avi@argo.co.il>
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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).


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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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