Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755983AbYCaCDm (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:03:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753581AbYCaCDe (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:03:34 -0400 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.171]:10314 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752518AbYCaCDd (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:03:33 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=HtUgHX2ZdJF1XoaWcFtnG03H2+TbvhpcEBqrE4BC8FdmPl4sO6oJC3VRWqOdhYH9guR6epcvU6xVldYLougav5/iK5BmFwNE8/fIOWDglFnzGDO9V3jywribNghYhSQ64fQf+J9E/itbDIDERXGFbqeusdxfXoUnrgB091nDx4s= Message-ID: <47F0491F.4050804@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:14:55 +0800 From: Peter Teoh User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LKML , kernelnewbies Subject: RFC: Writing Solaris Device Drivers in Java Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1144 Lines: 23 Interesting read: http://research.sun.com/techrep/2006/smli_tr-2006-156.pdf Personal comments: Since KVM and Xen/OpenVZ etc other virtual machines are beginning to pop up - I don't see why it inhibits (in spite of the many initial difficulties as mentioned in the paper) the growth of using Java for device drivers development. Contrast it against udev - esp in terms of usability/supportability/extensibility etc. udev is a Linux thing, whereas Java is at industry level. If everyone write applications device drivers using Java (minus the extreme hardware arch specific stuff, but supports all the low level protocol specific stuff like TCP/IP, NFS, USB etc) then I think it has potential to compete against C lang - the monopolizer till today in the kernel world (Windows/MacOS/Linux/BSD etc). Ie, imagine using a drivers written for the Solaris in Linux, won't it be cool? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/