On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:42:36PM +0200, Jan Atle Ramsli wrote: > But I have not yet figured out: Are drivers 'processes' now? Can they be > killed?
Of course. > If I ask L4 to sit on IRQ14/15 and tell me about stuff that must come in > or go out, will I be doing 'interrupt processing' when I get those > notifications? Yes, at the abstract level. The hardware interrupt will already have been processed by L4, but you get the information in the interrupt in the notification message. > Or will something have happened (I am a 'user') so that I can be killed > if misbehaving (I can imagine some of you hoping that could be taken > literally :-)? Well, yes, that is the whole point of having the drivers in user space :) Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
