On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: [SNIP] > OSKit provides a framework for having drivers in user space. I > think you just need to implement a few library calls to make it happen. > > GNU Mach provides a framework for having drivers in user space. You can get > interrupts delivered as messages on a special port. > > Are you interested in working on user space drivers? All the components are > there, it just has to be done and tested.
I am, but it's been a while since I studied anything Hurd-related, so it may take a while for me to get actually started. Just theoretically, it seems an approach could be to create a wrapper that allows certain classes of Linux drivers to be embedded in it, i.e. to have a SCSI wrapper process that supplies most of whatever Linux offers to scsi drivers; the same for a NIC wrapper, and so on. But I'm sure that must have been considered before - it's probably not exactly trivial because of the difference in execution environments... but a lot of that has been studied for OSKit itself as well as far as I know...? Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies / Emile van Bergen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 | http://www.e-advies.info -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
