Re: Interrupt-Handling in User Space

2007-05-05 Thread Alan Cox
> afaics there is no mechanism in the official kernel tree to handle > interrupts in user space yet. I'd need that for an embedded project I'm Its basically not possible to do with most hardware because you get deadlocks when there are shared interrupts. However see drivers/uio in the current GIT

Re: Interrupt-Handling in User Space

2007-05-05 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 09:55:33PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 21:17 +0200, Clifford Wolf wrote: > > afaics there is no mechanism in the official kernel tree to handle > > interrupts in user space yet. I'd need that for an embedded project I'm > > woking on atm and are so

Re: Interrupt-Handling in User Space

2007-05-05 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 21:17 +0200, Clifford Wolf wrote: > afaics there is no mechanism in the official kernel tree to handle > interrupts in user space yet. I'd need that for an embedded project I'm > woking on atm and are so far not sure if I'm going to implement such a > generic interface or just

Interrupt-Handling in User Space

2007-05-05 Thread Clifford Wolf
Hi, afaics there is no mechanism in the official kernel tree to handle interrupts in user space yet. I'd need that for an embedded project I'm woking on atm and are so far not sure if I'm going to implement such a generic interface or just write a simple driver that does the job for my application