[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I would like to summary all these issues brought up so far.
You didn't address all of the issues. A key issue left unaddressed is
the lack of a Linux DDI. A project that aims at making Linux kernel
drivers work in user space on any system would have to deal with the
fact that Linux doesn't have a stable DDI. This means that the
programming interface the user space environment provides is itself in
flux -- it has to match a moving target. How can you do that?
> I feel it could be useful for writing driver for some customized
> hardware since development
> and debug in user mode is much more convenient than in kernel mode.
This sounds like a different project to me.
I'd be somewhat in favor of a project to do something like that,
provided that:
- It doesn't promise the ability to do Linux driver porting, as that
seems an infeasible task.
- Any core system functionality delivered via user space drivers has
a clear set of performance goals.
- The project team works with some other group or person that wants
to deliver such a driver (at least one consumer; no orphans,
please).
For what it's worth, this new proposal sounds a bit like Jungo's
"WinDriver:"
http://www.jungo.com/wd-solaris.html
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