Re: RFC: Writing Solaris Device Drivers in Java

[Jacek Luczak]

Peter Zijlstra pisze:
> On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 10:14 +0800, Peter Teoh wrote:
> > Interesting read:
> >
> > http://research.sun.com/techrep/2006/smli_tr-2006-156.pdf
> >
> > Personal comments:
> >
> > Since KVM and Xen/OpenVZ etc other virtual machines are beginning to pop 
> > up - I don't see why it inhibits (in spite of the many initial 
> > difficulties as mentioned in the paper) the growth of using Java for 
> > device drivers development.   Contrast it against udev - esp in terms of 
> > usability/supportability/extensibility etc.   udev is a Linux thing, 
> > whereas Java is at industry level.   If everyone write applications 
> > device drivers using Java (minus the extreme hardware arch specific 
> > stuff, but supports all the low level protocol specific stuff like 
> > TCP/IP, NFS, USB etc) then I think it has potential to compete against C 

Java? Compete against C? Don't scare embedded devs.
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