Re: plan to work on user-level device drivers

[Barry deFreese]

Da Zheng wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am thinking about writing user-level device drivers. When I searched 
> Internet, I found the paper "An Architecture for Device Drivers 
> Executing as User-Level Tasks" written by David B. Golub, Guy G. 
> Sotomayor and Freeman L. Rawson, III. It might be exactly what I want 
> but unfortunately, the paper isn't available for downloading on 
> Internet. I wonder if anyone knows the work and more importantly, 
> where I can download the code.
>
> My plan is to write a user-level device driver for testing and 
> ideally, to port ddekit to Mach if it is possible.
> The first device I choose will be ethernet card, which I think is the 
> one I relatively familiar with.
> Any suggestion is welcome!
>
> Zheng Da
Zheng Da,

Yay!! Someone is finally tackling this!!  I have been looking at DDEKit, 
XNUs IOKit, and some others.  I don't know shite but if I can be of any 
help, let me know!

Barry