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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn index 19a1cab4..e1b8d22e 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, +Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ versions, or from one of the free BSD variants. While it would be certainly possible to create custom glue code again, a more sustainable and probably also easier approch is to use -[[open issues/DDE]] instead -- it already +[[DDE]] instead -- it already does the hard work of providing an environment where the foreign drivers can run, and has the additional advantage of being externally maintained. diff --git a/dde.mdwn b/dde.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7d341da5 --- /dev/null +++ b/dde.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + + * [[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> diff --git a/news/2009-12-31.mdwn b/news/2009-12-31.mdwn index 16ef9698..286350d1 100644 --- a/news/2009-12-31.mdwn +++ b/news/2009-12-31.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]] > and started fixing these, as well as he fulfilled his usual share of > miscellaneous bug fixing. -> The [[open issues/DDE]] port of Zheng Da now [passes the first +> The [[DDE]] port of Zheng Da now [passes the first > tests](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2009-12/msg00060.html), > bringing us the first steps towards updated device drivers -- and much lower > overhead for maintaining them. diff --git a/open_issues/dde.mdwn b/open_issues/dde.mdwn index 99322dbc..ef319a5c 100644 --- a/open_issues/dde.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/dde.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -8,35 +8,4 @@ Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - * [[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> +[[!meta redir=/dde]] |