Re: [alliance-iosk] Driver programming and GPL

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

>> 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 :))
>
>.....wow, completely illogical! At least some logic there is. It's best that
>you don't assume anything, if you ask me :). Still physics is something very
>different.....I wonder if you were studying CS what can happen.

I'd go crazy, I'm trying to do too many things at once as it is :).  I
don't feel like studying CS is something I would enjoy, though.

>> 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.
>
>Oh well, were a bit lazy (oh no, overworked is better). Ok, I'll try to be
>more
>a good programmer (that reads "study before speaking"). But sometimes it is
>much quickier to ask the thing directly to you.

That's ok, but then you have to put up with me clarifying it to the detail.

>Maybe it's that I have to make questions explicitely.

I prefer that.  Make it clear what you want to know.  If I know the answer,
then you'll hear it :)

>> >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.
>
>Yes, I don't want a "Programming Allos for Dummies",

Sounds like fun though... definitely one for later.  'Programming for Allos
in 24 hours - the Dummy(TM) approach.'  =]

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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