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Message-ID: <47F0D201.6030102@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:58:57 +0200 From: Jacek Luczak <difrost.kernel@...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 Peter Zijlstra pisze: > 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 Java? Compete against C? Don't scare embedded devs. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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