Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755180AbYCaMCL (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:02:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753402AbYCaMB6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:01:58 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.185]:15303 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753374AbYCaMB5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:01:57 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=mxf3gQ40xkgnoCt1TjwZRxOWADqJEMn7dGCqjQ3OL8/w7oP+6dPf3Xq/Q5L32XW3dczuFMzPR7+se51KK5UDf1d/79E6OzM5Q9rbnRbPn46BdLXXY36Us6ylRxM/3IrRjfJx4S7o59EtXUDSIGACLDugO2Ti/76NZ3itQjfe/ts= Message-ID: <47F0D201.6030102@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:58:57 +0200 From: Jacek Luczak User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Zijlstra CC: Peter Teoh , LKML , kernelnewbies Subject: Re: RFC: Writing Solaris Device Drivers in Java References: <47F0491F.4050804@gmail.com> <1206959293.8514.636.camel@twins> In-Reply-To: <1206959293.8514.636.camel@twins> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; 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: 1147 Lines: 24 Peter Zijlstra pisze: > 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 Java? Compete against C? Don't scare embedded devs. -- 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/