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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: Linux kernel module - memory allocation
Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 17:34:10 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2015-05-18, Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> wrote:
> On 15-05-18 12:19 , q.kontinuum wrote:
>> Hi, thanks a lot for the fast reply.
>>
>> In comp.lang.ada, you wrote:
>>> On 15-05-18 11:27 , q.kontinuum wrote:
>>> Do you mean a real "driver", either kernel-linked or a loadable module?
>>
>> Yes, I'm aiming for a loadable kernel module.
>
> Ok. I don't think many people have tried this with GNAT or Ada -- I 
> don't know of any others. Do you know anyone who has done it?
>

Yes, I have but I remember very rapidly deciding to give up once I tried
to do something "real".

Also, it was over a decade ago, so I no longer remember any details.

Here's a Usenet post of mine which has showed up in one of the Usenet
archives; the response to the post has some information:

http://computer-programming-forum.com/44-ada/86f1b921763bcbde.htm

(I browse with a locked down Firefox browser on Linux; I don't know
anything about this website other than it was the first match in a
Google search.)

The comp.lang.ada title was:

Using GNAT in Linux kernel modules, was: Re: Free RTOS with support for Ada ?

Also check out section 16.16 (Writing Linux Modules) at:

http://www.pegasoft.ca/resources/boblap/16.html

Simon.

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