Re: Can we move device drivers into user-space?

From: Cong Wang
Date: Thu Feb 23 2012 - 10:57:51 EST


On 02/23/2012 12:56 PM, Jidong Xiao wrote:
Hi,

Hi,

So is it mainly because the high overhead that prevents the user-space
device drivers ideas being accepted in Linux?


At least UIO drivers are already in Linux kernel, see drivers/uio/.

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