linux-kernel - Re: RFC: Writing Solaris Device Drivers in Java

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Date:	Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:45:35 +0100
From:	"Wander Winkelhorst" <w.winkelhorst@...il.com>
To:	"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	"Peter Teoh" <htmldeveloper@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@...linux.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Writing Solaris Device Drivers in Java

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> 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
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