Re: looking for decent, current online discussion of user-space drivers

2015-11-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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://g

Re: looking for decent, current online discussion of user-space drivers

2015-11-17 Thread Anupam Kapoor
> [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 82

looking for decent, current online discussion of user-space drivers

2015-11-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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-