Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:02:14 +0100 (MET) | | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | | Subject | Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19 | |
On Dec 14 2006 10:56, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote:
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>A small German manufacturer produces high-end AD converter cards. He sells
>100 pieces per year, only in Germany and only with Windows drivers. He would
>now like to make his cards work with Linux. He has two driver programmers
>with little experience in writing Linux kernel drivers. What do you tell him?
>Write a large kernel module from scratch? Completely rewrite his code
>because it uses floating point arithmetics?
They use floating point in (Windows) kernelspace? Oh my.
-`J'
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