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    SubjectRe: [RFC] Simple userspace interface for PCI drivers
    Xavier Bestel wrote:
    > Le jeudi 31 août 2006 à 17:12 -0400, Lee Revell a écrit :
    >> On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 22:58 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
    >>> Precisely. How do you know the bugreport you received isn't caused by
    >>> some weird binary userspace driver hosing the PCI bus ?
    >> Can't X, or any application that access hardware directly by
    >> mmaping /dev/mem, do this now?
    >
    > Yes they can, but X's behavior is pretty well known by now :) and it's
    > open source.
    >

    what about binary drivers in kernel like nVidia or ATI ?

    Well above all, user-space drivers can be of help in a lot of other
    ways. An example is rapid prototyping. Some times it makes sense as well
    to do in user-space, where you can really control things. Drivers using
    math is an example


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