[lug] Looking for Linux device-driver course

[Jeffrey Haemer]

Rob,

No idea.  Could you recommend something that provides good information about
user-level drivers, how to write them, and how to choose when to use them?
Can we expect a Linux device-driver course to cover this?  My ignorance is
profound.

On 9/26/07, Rob Nagler <nagler at bivio.biz> wrote:
>
> FWIW, do you really need a kernel device driver?  I'm running embedded
> linux for freiker.org with a stock kernel and user-level drivers
> written in Perl.  Really depends on the application, of course, just
> important to point out that you can run real-time systems without
> having to dive into the kernel.  netequalizer.com's is written almost
> entirely in Perl, too.
>
> Rob
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