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Re: User-space device drivers: ``interface to interrupt hardware''
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Thomas Schwinge |
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Re: User-space device drivers: ``interface to interrupt hardware'' |
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Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:21:03 +0200 |
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Hello!
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 02:22:00PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> writes:
> > What is Minix doing?
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> Minix 3 uses user-level drivers. In some cases, when a transient
> failure affects a driver process, it may be restarted.
That I already knew about Minix.
My question was rather if someone already knows the details about how the
Minix microkernel handles hardware interrupts, how they are passed to
user-space servers and how they are being handled there.
Regards,
Thomas
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