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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+
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+
+ * [[community/gsoc/project ideas/driver glue code]]
+
+ * [[open issues/user-space device drivers]]
+
+ * [[open issues/device drivers and io systems]]
+
+---
+
+# Documentation
+
+ * <http://demo.tudos.org/dsweeper_tutorial.html>
+
+ Why device drivers in user space; different possibilities for getting
+ device drivers; DDE's origins and rationale.
+
+ * <http://wiki.tudos.org/DDE/DDEKit>,
+ <http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/pipermail/l4-hackers/2009/004291.html>
+
+ Structural overview of the components.
+
+
+# Discussion
+
+DDE essentially is a glue layer to embed Linux device drivers into another
+environement. In the DDE case, this *other environment* is a user-space task
+-- compared to the GNU Mach kernel having a *in-kernel* Linux 2.0 device
+drivers glue code (cf. paper by Goel et al.).
+
+
+# Source Code
+
+ * <http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/index.php?node_id=1584&ln=en>