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Re: VKernel progress update - 8 Jan 2006 (milestone reached!)


From: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 04:16:39 +0100

Matthew Dillon wrote:
    The old addage, "First make it work, then make it fast", applies big
    time here.  So I'd say use coarse polling for now.

two thoughts:


how about using O_ASYNC and SIGIO for console and network, etc?

we could build a device tree (starting with a nexus), where drivers could register filedescs as "interrupt" resources. or something like that...

cheers
 simon

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