Re: looking for decent, current online discussion of user-space drivers
On Tue, 17 Nov 2015, Anupam Kapoor wrote: > > > [2015-11-17T15:43:52+0530]: "Robert P. J. Day" (rpjday): > ,[ rpjday ] > | > | in particular, are there any nice examples of this that > | can be downloaded, built and played with? thanks muchly. > ` > there is snabbswitch (https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch) where > folks have written 82599 (intel-10g card) driver in lua > (https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch/tree/master/src/apps/intel) > > might be useful... h, yes, thanks for the link. just to keep track of what i collect, i started a new wiki page: http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/User_space_drivers i'll add anything else that pops up that looks like it's useful. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
Re: looking for decent, current online discussion of user-space drivers
> [2015-11-17T15:43:52+0530]: "Robert P. J. Day" (rpjday): ,[ rpjday ] | | in particular, are there any nice examples of this that | can be downloaded, built and played with? thanks muchly. ` there is snabbswitch (https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch) where folks have written 82599 (intel-10g card) driver in lua (https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch/tree/master/src/apps/intel) might be useful... -- kind regards anupam ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
looking for decent, current online discussion of user-space drivers
a colleague asks me about the implications of porting a pile of code from a non-linux embedded OS to linux, and simply rewriting most of it as user-space drivers, as opposed to a total rewrite to kernel code. i'm in no way an authority on user-space drivers, so i'm looking for any decent, up-to-date discussions, not so much on the technical aspects, but more the *implications* of doing this. i'm aware of mmap(), and i'm reading up on UIO, and i've found a few online pieces that look informative: http://www.embedded.com/design/operating-systems/4401769/Device-drivers-in-user-space http://www.enea.com/Documents/Resources/Whitepapers/Enea-User-Space-Drivers-in-Linux_Whitepaper_2013.pdf so is there something that elaborates on both the pros and cons of doing this? in particular, are there any nice examples of this that can be downloaded, built and played with? thanks muchly. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
