Re: Device Driver Terminology
Gernot Heiser <[email protected]>
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> On 20 Jan 2015, at 3:00 , teclis High Elf <[email protected]> wrote: > > In QNX they call them resource managers because they perform the same function as a device driver in a monolithic OS such as Linux but they run in their own address space like a POSIX process and behave like daemon. … except if they are needed for real-time tasks, in which case they must run in the kernel. QNX propaganda has a certain divergence with the source, at least last time we looked at it. And given their pace of innovation, I suspect not much has changed. Take-away: don’t get distracted by commercial PR. And yes, just call drivers “drivers”, as Björn suggests Gernot _______________________________________________ l4-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/mailman/listinfo/l4-hackers