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SubjectRe: Java or Forth interpreter in kernel for device drivers - i'm interested

Intel and SCO are working on something like that.
The whitepaper is here http://www.sco.com/UDI/specs.html

-phazer

On Tue, 4 May 1999, Bill Kelly wrote:

>I noticed the following on the Linux wish-list:
>"Java or Forth interpreter in kernel for device drivers. This lets vendors
>write binary drivers that will work for Intel, Alpha, and whatever else uses
>the same bus. An interpreted driver without source code is better than no
>driver at all."
>
>That's interesting, a cross-platform binary standard for device drivers is a
>somewhat different reason than why I thought many hardware-types liked to be
>able to break into Forth interpreters at boot time. I thought the Forths
>were mostly used as an interactive hardware-debugging aid, or possibly as a
>interpreters for plug-n-play style startup code on the cards. (Am I way off
>here? I don't have hardware experience, myself.)
>
>I don't mean to impugn the idea of a cross-platform interpreter for drivers
>in any way, it sounds really cool. But I can imagine that an existing
>binary standard like Java might have a better chance of being adopted for
>something like this, and that interactivity might not be a primary concern.
>(If anyone wants to counter that Forth really has a chance here, by all
>means; I think that would be neat. :)
>
>But in any case, I would be interested in providing an in-kernel Forth to
>serve as more of a hardware-oriented debugging aid, if anyone can confirm
>that this a) would be useful and desirable, and b) would be willing to
>suggest features it should have to make it the most cool and useful.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Bill Kelly
>(mailto:billk@cts.com)
>
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