On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 10:14 +0800, Peter Teoh wrote: > > > Interesting read: > > > > http://research.sun.com/techrep/2006/smli_tr-2006-156.pdf > > > > Personal comments: > > > > Since KVM and Xen/OpenVZ etc other virtual machines are beginning to pop > > up - I don't see why it inhibits (in spite of the many initial > > difficulties as mentioned in the paper) the growth of using Java for > > device drivers development. Contrast it against udev - esp in terms of > > usability/supportability/extensibility etc. udev is a Linux thing, > > whereas Java is at industry level. If everyone write applications > > device drivers using Java (minus the extreme hardware arch specific > > stuff, but supports all the low level protocol specific stuff like > > TCP/IP, NFS, USB etc) then I think it has potential to compete against C > > lang - the monopolizer till today in the kernel world > > (Windows/MacOS/Linux/BSD etc). Ie, imagine using a drivers written for > > the Solaris in Linux, won't it be cool? > > > LOL.. good joke! > > But as others have pointed out, you missed April's fools by 1 day. It is actually 1st of april in Kiritimati for about 45 minutes at the time of this writing. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=274 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
