Subject: Re: RFC:   Writing Solaris Device Drivers in Java
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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To: Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@gmail.com>
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       kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org>
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Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:12:17 +1100
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On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 10:14 +0800, Peter Teoh wrote:
> 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?

You're off by one day for an April fool...

Ben.


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