[alliance-iosk] Re: [alliance-kernel] Driver programming and GPL

[Daniel Arbuckle <djarb@wvc-omak.ctc.edu>]

I good suggesttion. I wasn't looking forward to converting some of the 
code in the Linux driverbase...

Daniel

On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Ramon van Handel wrote:

> Alliance is a GPL project.  One of the benefits that gives us is that we
> can use code from other GPL projects.  For the CK and EK's cores this is
> probably not of much use, but other GPL OSes have a very good set of
> hardware drivers:  I doesn't makes sense to duplicate their efforts.
> 
> I think the biggest collection of hardware drivers is for Linux.  These are
> usually very good and stable, but they assume they're running in kernel
> mode and have access to everything in the machine.  This is not the case in
> Alliance.  I have found that the VSTa drivers, though, also run in a
> priviledged user mode.  Moreover, unlike linux the VSTa drivers are very
> clean and readable and the code isn't a mess.  I think we should take the
> VSTa drivers to start with and modify them to run on top of our
> IOSK/NetSK/SndSK, and then we can augment our driver set using linux
> drivers and drivers from other sources.  I suggest the IOSK coders at least
> get ahold of the VSTa sources and have a look at them.
> 
> Ramon
> 
> 
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