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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederman@uswest.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@Elf.ucw.cz>,
	Jeremy Elson <jelson@circlemud.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] FUSD v1.00: Framework for User-Space Devices
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 12:20:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011008122013.B38@toy.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011002204836.B3026@bug.ucw.cz> <200110022237.f92Mbrk28387@cambot.lecs.cs.ucla.edu> <20011005205136.A1272@elf.ucw.cz> <m1n132x4qg.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>
In-Reply-To: <m1n132x4qg.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>; from ebiederman@uswest.net on Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 08:09:11PM -0600

Hi!

> > Yep. And linmodem driver does signal processing, so it is big and
> > ugly. And up till now, it had to be in kernel. With your patches, such
> > drivers could be userspace (where they belong!). Of course, it would be 
> > very good if your interface did not change...
> 
> I don't see how linmodem drivers apply.  At least not at the low-level
> because you actually have to driver the hardware, respond to interrupts
> etc.  On some of this I can see a driver split like there is for the video

You don't actually need interrupts -- you *know* when next sample arrives.
And port io is completely fine with iopl() ;-).
								Pavel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-10-13 19:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-29  1:18 Jeremy Elson
2001-10-01 15:36 ` Jeremy Elson
2001-10-02 18:48   ` Pavel Machek
2001-10-02 22:37     ` Jeremy Elson
2001-10-02 22:44       ` Mike Fedyk
2001-10-05 18:51       ` Pavel Machek
2001-10-08  2:09         ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-08  2:37           ` linmodems (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] FUSD v1.00: Framework for User-Space Devices) Jeff Garzik
2001-10-08 12:19             ` Pavel Machek
2001-10-08 19:34             ` Tim Jansen
2001-10-08 12:20           ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2001-10-13 21:57             ` [ANNOUNCE] FUSD v1.00: Framework for User-Space Devices Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-14  6:12               ` Pavel Machek
2001-10-15 12:34                 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-10-15 12:38                 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-10-10  3:55         ` Jeremy Elson

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