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From: Brian Drummond <brian_drummond@btconnect.com>
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Subject: Re: Linux device drivers in Ada?
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:36:01 +0000
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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