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

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

--
Serve - BSD     +++  RENT this banner advert  +++    ASCII Ribbon   /"\
Work - Mac      +++  space for low €€€ NOW!1  +++      Campaign     \ /
Party Enjoy Relax   |   http://dragonflybsd.org      Against  HTML   \
Dude 2c 2 the max   !   http://golden-apple.biz       Mail + News   / \