Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752992AbYCaKpo (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:45:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752102AbYCaKph (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:45:37 -0400 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.173]:17373 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751830AbYCaKpg (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:45:36 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=KLAjpxh0Sm0+2IVI1tcvj11/uN5WTPXJNZ9LWZqrrWi/cxZsTvqbDv1sM4PvRh9p/ularH1pN80H0g7lgMO7AYEfV6Z6ce+Aw8VUzTKvZyCYI5zVRzcoFVTeA3DD8rP17KRLPNzhBpU4WTuBV3V1COV+PBISE6Imwoqc4u7ePlk= Message-ID: <5699f8f00803310345i30e64e95m6543b5ec99243a7f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:45:35 +0100 From: "Wander Winkelhorst" To: "Peter Zijlstra" Subject: Re: RFC: Writing Solaris Device Drivers in Java Cc: "Peter Teoh" , LKML , kernelnewbies In-Reply-To: <1206959293.8514.636.camel@twins> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <47F0491F.4050804@gmail.com> <1206959293.8514.636.camel@twins> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1598 Lines: 35 On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > 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? > > > LOL.. good joke! > > But as others have pointed out, you missed April's fools by 1 day. It is actually 1st of april in Kiritimati for about 45 minutes at the time of this writing. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=274 -- 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/