Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 01 Sep 2006 01:33:54 +0400 | From | Manu Abraham <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Simple userspace interface for PCI drivers |
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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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