Messages in this thread | | | From | Hans-Jürgen Koch <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19 | Date | Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:17:22 +0100 |
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Am Donnerstag, 14. Dezember 2006 18:02 schrieb Jan Engelhardt: > > On Dec 14 2006 10:56, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote: > > > >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.
To be honest, I never really understood where kernel space starts and user space ends in Windows, so I'm not sure about this :-)
Hans
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