From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>
Subject: Re: Advantage of XML based GUI? (was Re: Ada-inspired OS/Language)
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:34:02 -0400
Date: 2002-09-13T11:34:02-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D82056A.4090201@cogeco.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3d80b566.992395741@news.cis.dfn.de
Nick Roberts wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 08:02:53 +0000 (UTC), Preben Randhol
> <randhol+news@pvv.org> strongly typed:
>>On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 19:48:28 GMT, Nick Roberts wrote:
...
>>I have started to read a bit on AdaOS and I have two questions. When it
>>comes to device drivers how are they going to be implemented. I mean one
>>of the problems Linux has is that one have to make all the device
>>drivers onself and somethimes this means reverse engineering. Would one
>>need to do the same for AdaOS or could on easily port the linux
>>drivers?
>
> Currently, I plan to write 'native' device drivers (in Ada) for AdaOS. I
> intend to go to the original hardware documentation wherever posisble, and
> write the drivers properly. I don't think it's unfair to suggest that most
> device drivers (even commercial ones) tend be of remarkably poor quality.
Just be aware that the specs don't always tell you the whole story.
By looking at the code for existing drivers you can save yourself
a lot of grief by examining the issues that the driver author had
to contend with. You'll also see where he had to punt. You might
punt differently, but looking at existing driver code can be
extremely helpful. 8-)
One area that is particularly sensitive in this area is "probing"
at initialization time. A lot of PC hardware presents a
"no win" situation -- particularly older hardware.
--
Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-13 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-20 14:10 Ada-inspired OS/Language Ryan
2002-08-20 14:34 ` Jim Rogers
2002-08-20 14:59 ` Darren New
2002-08-20 17:57 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-08-29 22:24 ` Nick Roberts
2002-08-30 13:33 ` Marin D. Condic
2002-08-31 3:38 ` Nick Roberts
2002-08-31 13:54 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-04 16:47 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2002-09-04 17:24 ` Darren New
2002-09-05 3:16 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-05 8:41 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-09-12 2:17 ` Rod Haper
2002-09-06 17:31 ` Richard Riehle
2002-09-07 0:23 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-07 13:43 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-07 15:18 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-08 22:14 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-09-09 10:27 ` Advantage of XML based GUI? (was Re: Ada-inspired OS/Language) Preben Randhol
2002-09-09 14:27 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-09-09 14:02 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-09 14:43 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-09 21:58 ` Ryan Tarpine
2002-09-11 16:40 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-09-12 10:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-09-12 16:43 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-09-12 18:54 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-09-12 21:22 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-09-13 12:15 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-09-10 5:21 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-09-10 5:21 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-09-10 12:31 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-10 13:16 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-15 19:49 ` Christopher Browne
2002-09-10 22:32 ` achrist
2002-09-11 4:45 ` Christopher Browne
2002-09-11 5:59 ` achrist
2002-09-12 14:55 ` Christopher Browne
2002-09-11 2:28 ` Ted Dennison
2002-09-11 13:54 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-09-11 14:06 ` Programmer Dude
2002-09-11 19:48 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-12 8:02 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-12 14:27 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-09-18 17:49 ` Andrew Berg
2002-09-18 23:13 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-09-12 16:12 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-12 16:45 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-12 17:03 ` David C. Hoos
2002-09-13 7:57 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-13 19:55 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-14 12:59 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-16 5:20 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-09-16 8:16 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-16 11:47 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-16 12:08 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-17 12:04 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-12 18:57 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-09-13 8:01 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-13 12:23 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-09-13 15:32 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-13 1:53 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-13 8:24 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-13 19:55 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-14 15:42 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-09-14 16:19 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-09-15 3:31 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-15 5:50 ` Mark Biggar
2002-09-15 8:38 ` achrist
2002-09-15 21:54 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-16 15:26 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-09-17 2:36 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-17 4:07 ` Larry Kilgallen
[not found] ` <jHHM$fQsCilo@eisneOrganization: LJK Software <bNwUY4VpTlxs@eisner.encompasserve.org>
2002-09-17 22:05 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-12 17:23 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-09-13 0:45 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-09-13 8:10 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-13 17:44 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-09-13 1:53 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-13 3:02 ` Robert A Duff
2002-09-13 10:50 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2002-09-13 17:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-09-13 19:55 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-12 20:36 ` chris.danx
2002-09-13 1:53 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-13 12:14 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-13 15:29 ` Robert A Duff
2002-09-13 17:02 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-09-14 12:49 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-16 8:14 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-16 11:56 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-13 17:27 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-09-16 7:55 ` Mats Karlssohn
2002-09-13 15:34 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG [this message]
2002-09-09 10:00 ` Ada-inspired OS/Language Peter Hermann
2002-08-30 23:56 ` Samuel Tardieu
[not found] <000201c25b4d$2a9eba10$789a0844@robertqgx6k4x9>
2002-09-14 6:17 ` Advantage of XML based GUI? (was Re: Ada-inspired OS/Language) Robert C. Leif
replies disabled
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox