Re: FW: Guidance on resources for User Space Device Drivers on 2.6 kernel

[Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>]

Jaursch, Bill wrote:
> The reason to even consider a driver for this "Software only" driver
> was to start the work of writing a kernel space driver (loadable
> module).  So more specifically, I wanted to know if there is a way
> to use calls to the kernel to access a loadable module that is
> running code in User Space (to take advantage of libraries, tools,
> prevention of kernel crashes, etc.).

Since you plan to use this for a PCI device eventually, it sounds like
UIO would be of help.

> I am running 2.6.20, so many of the new User Space Driver features
> don't appear to be available (UIO, User Space API, etc.).  And at
> this point I don't expect my end users to upgrade to a newer kernel.

Perhaps you can backport UIO or can get someone to do it for you.
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Stefan Richter
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