Yes, that is my belief. Although performance will still suffer relative to a patched kernel with polling drivers.
E Ruben Merz wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Eddie, > > I'm not yet too familiar with the inner working of Click, nor of how it > may integrate with the kernel. Hence my question: do you think that > FromHost is the only thing that prevents a linuxpatchless > infrastructure. Do you believe that all the other parts of Click, for > instance, Timers, Tasks, etc, will just work? > > Ruben > > On 2/11/10 02:08 , Eddie Kohler wrote: >> Hi Lars, >> >> My plan for the future is to further develop the linuxpatchless >> infrastructure, which lets us run Click on unmodified kernels. >> >> So I would love for people to test this, such as you. Let us know how it >> goes. The only thing missing that I know of is FromHost. >> >> Eddie >> >> >> Lars Bro wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am using Click for testing of our wireless product, and I experience an >>> increasing demand for support of newer kernels. The reason for this is >>> hardware of course, but also wireless(802.11) drivers have been changing a >>> lot lately. >>> >>> I am now working with Matteo Croce's patches for 2.6.31 (on 2.6.31.9), this >>> is not as easy as I had thought. I can also see that Adam Greenhalgh has >>> done some work in separating syntax changes from core changes. >>> >>> What I would like to know is whether this kind of work is already ongoing, >>> or if there is an official plan for the next kernel patch. >>> >>> As I can see, Matteo's patch also includes changes for Click itself, and >>> this should be very carefully considered. >>> >>> So I suggest that we agree on a "next" kernel version to support, so we can >>> work on it in common. >>> >>> Any votes? >>> >>> yours, >>> Lars Bro >>> _______________________________________________ >>> click mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/click >> _______________________________________________ >> click mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/click > > - -- > Ruben Merz Deutsche Telekom Laboratories > http://www.net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de/people/ruben_merz.shtml > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJLc/aGAAoJEIem9YkUyRjtEjsIAKP9lmdYS/ke5Vwk7AmgvrA6 > od6N3L57MTadbvxGC6dFNVY5GKqzTaK9y4jMWxAAkNuY1xqtJn0hgqAic23m0uwS > umK+4QZIWAzr+vWdWwoPfvrGdy7MT3/fWLsBUvsHyAIYGSpZkDtXqkz+XQrhTzQp > TzNkpohGKsQSFlalfrpnFqF0c2ggDTdPGgLJobQnylYuL262/AkweY5dIJ8cP3d2 > FwHlNVWFwDSWOxMc9If5anQBOFqv+t2nFnq/Gewz/YKtXM5n6HygSIWI9sAWds/Y > VLpbOCBFv6RorvkGgTU0lec4Iy3PPjpsqpD5ITedTBE2pQKEPoXO07tQdKQzYFw= > =HbhS > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ click mailing list [email protected] https://amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/click
