On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 08:57 +0200, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote: > Ben Nizette wrote: > > > > As in examples of the userspace half? Unfortunately uio-smx isn't ready > > to fly thanks to some significant production delays but the userspace > > half of the Hilscher CIF driver can be found at > > http://www.osadl.org/projects/downloads/UIO/user/ > > As I see it, mainly the license conditions attract people to use UIO. > Performance is not that important. > Ohw god I hope not. If people want to keep their stuff proprietary they can supply binary-only modules a la nvidia. Thankfully such nonsense is fairly uncommon these days. UIO is not a set of hooks for general userspace drivers, it can't replace 99% of kernel drivers. It exists to allow easy and high-performance interfacing to a particular family of devices - those which simply need to shift data around and have an interrupt telling you when they're done. --Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
