Re: Userspace I/O driver core

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Thu Dec 14 2006 - 05:46:46 EST


Arjan van de Ven wrote:
I understand one still has to write a kernel driver to shut up the irq. How about writing a small bytecode interpreter to make event than unnecessary?

if you do that why not do a real driver.


An entire driver in bytecode? that means exposing the entire kernel API to the bytecode interpreter. A monumental task.

Or did I misunderstand you?


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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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