On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 05:55:19PM +0200, Emile van Bergen wrote: > 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.
We are not in a hurry. > 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...? > Well, such a wrapper is called a driver framework. The L4 project is going to research a new driver framework from scratch. OSKit is another driver framework. The next aby-step in this direction would probably be to write the missing code that glues the OSKit framework in user space to the external interfaces in (OSkit-) Mach, which make interrupts etc accessible to user space programs. Thanks, Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
