On Dec 14 2006 10:56, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote: > >A small German manufacturer produces high-end AD converter cards. He sells >100 pieces per year, only in Germany and only with Windows drivers. He would >now like to make his cards work with Linux. He has two driver programmers >with little experience in writing Linux kernel drivers. What do you tell him? >Write a large kernel module from scratch? Completely rewrite his code >because it uses floating point arithmetics? They use floating point in (Windows) kernelspace? Oh my. -`J' --
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