From: Brian Drummond <brian_drummond@btconnect.com>
Subject: Re: Linux device drivers in Ada?
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:36:01 +0000
Date: 2009-01-14T01:36:01+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s7gqm49l6jkios4pvjmo8itdf2isqvpb8h@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: gkijsn$tm7$1@online.de
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:43:51 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs
<dirk.heinrichs@online.de> wrote:
>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
Thanks! This looks very useful.
Thanks also to Jacob; RTLGnat may not help with the driver per se, but
certainly will with handling modules.
- Brian
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2009-01-13 12:38 Linux device drivers in Ada? Brian Drummond
2009-01-13 13:21 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2009-01-13 17:43 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-01-14 1:36 ` Brian Drummond [this message]
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