On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 20:20 +0200, Neal H. Walfield wrote: > Assuming that the OS has its own interface for accessing devices, > reusing Linux device drivers does not mean that this interface must be > abandoned or that the Linux interface must be exposed to applications. > A server that implements the normal interface can be used to translate > from one to the other.
You got what I was saying backwards. What I was saying was that re-using Linux drivers requires that -- somewhere -- there must be an entity that replicates the Linux DDK. > First, I am trying to develop a way to first of all safely empower > applications. From a pure research perspective, I am not interested > in creating a product but verifying my ideas. That sounds perfectly reasonable. I must admit that I am biased by trying to solve product problems these days. shap
