On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 03:06:17PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The question of user interrupt handlers: There is an interface, but I don't > > think it was ever tried in GNU Mach, so I don't know if that works or can be > > resurrected. In any case user space drivers are only interesting in a more > > modern microkernel like L4. > > I would suggest not spending time right now on user-space drivers. > They are interesting in Mach, but it's the kind of thing that we might > well end up throwing away upon a switch to another kernel.
Rather the other way round: It makes sense to start with that when switching to another kernel, while it probably doesn't make a whole lot of sense with Mach performance wise. Peter, Moritz and me plan to discuss user space drivers for the Hurd on L4 this weekend in Bruxelles. People at FOSDEM who are interested in this are welcome to join in. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann The Hurd http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/ _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
