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From: Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@online.de>
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Subject: Re: Linux device drivers in Ada?
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Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:43:51 +0100
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Brian Drummond wrote:

> Possibly a long shot, but does anyone know of any example Linux device
> drivers written in Ada? Is it even possible for Linux?
> 
> I'm not looking for anything specific, rather for a starting point.
> I need to write a device driver for an FPGA card on the PCIe bus, and
> I'd rather not use C if at all possible.

There is an example in "The Big Online Book of Linux Ada Programming" [1]. 
Lookup chapter 16.16 "Writing Linux Modules".

HTH...

	Dirk
[1]: http://www.pegasoft.ca/resources/boblap/book.html