Re: [alliance-iosk] Driver programming and GPL

[vhandel@chem.vu.nl (Ramon van Handel)]

>> >demotasks, well, are demotasks :). CK testing stuff. There is no IOperm(),
>> >if I remember correctly, though...
>>
>> Well, you don't.  There is.  It's not a seperate CK system call, though.  I
>> suggest you have a look again (I don't know what version of demotasks you
>> have looked at... there hasn't been an IOperm until it was implemented in
>> the CK in the first place :)
>
>Oh my god, I have used IOperm (a la unix) only as example of the such and such
>call. Simply at the time I wasn't remeber the Alliance name. Don't be too much
>precise Ramon....

No, ok, but you said there wasn't any I/O allocation *at all*.  Which I
needed to set straight :).  I don't care how you call the thing but it IS
there.

>now I think that I understand all of this: you study chemistry, so
>an highly different task. When you study, you "context switch" to a totally
>different environment, which is much easier than me, that I work on an highly
>similar environment, so I mess up things.

Hmmm...  may be something to that.  I had to 'switch' several times today,
as I'm now also doing courses at the physics department...  Still,
sometimes I don't quite follow you (well, what happens is that I read it
and it sounds completely illogical, then I think 'oh he probably means
something else' and start assuming that, and respond to that, and then we
all get confused :))

>Also, you work much more time on allos
>than anyone else, and this does not helps understanding :).

I kind of assume you know at least what the interface to the CK code looks
like (never mind how it works.)  After all, we ARE working on the same
project.

>PS the actual call name is CKresourceAlloc(&IOregion, demoKernel.self, 0)),
>isn't it:)?

Yup :)  The demotasks contain it all. I don't think you'll find any better
documentation at the moment - the demotasks test the system but also
demonstrate how it works.

Ramon

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Ramon van Handel   <vhandel@chem.vu.nl>
Chemistry Student, OS Programmer and all-round Weirdo
The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious.
So what? Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?
(Ogden Nash)


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