[Haskell-cafe] Linux device drivers

[Keean Schupke]

I don't think I said anything controversial. I guess I was just 
over-simplifying things by only considering PC IDE hardware - but then 
again that must get you running on 90% of the systems people are likely 
to have lying around to play with a developmental OS on.

On the other hand the average network driver seems to be about 2,000 
lines of code, whereas if you add all the parts of the generic ide 
driver together you get about 20,000 lines of code. I guess that answers 
my question - storage is an order of magnitude harder than networking, 
even before including SCSI.

    Regards,
    Keean.



Simon Marlow wrote:

>Keean, you should be aware that Lennart is something of a device driver
>guru.  He knows what he's talking about :-)  Go grep for Augustsson in
>the NetBSD kernel sometime.
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>Cheers,
>	Simon
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