On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 [email protected] wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:13:24 +0200, "Budde, Marco" said:
>
> > E.g. in my case the Windows source code has got more than 10 MB.
> > Nobody will convert such an amount of code from C++ to C.
> > This would take years.
>
> Do you have any *serious* intent to drop 10 *megabytes* worth of driver
> into the kernel??? (Hint - *everything* in drivers/net/wireless *totals*
> to only 2.7M).
>
For a special perpose embedded application, doing it all in kernel space
would be the first, effective hack.
> A Linux device driver isn't the same thing as a Windows device driver - much of
> a Windows driver is considered "userspace" on Linux, and you're free to do that
> in C++ if you want.
>
Yes, moving stuff to user-space would be the way to go - unless it kills
performance!
Esben
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