> On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 10:14 +0800, Peter Teoh wrote:
>
> > Interesting read:
> >
> >
http://research.sun.com/techrep/2006/smli_tr-2006-156.pdf
> >
> > Personal comments:
> >
> > Since KVM and Xen/OpenVZ etc other virtual machines are beginning to pop
> > up - I don't see why it inhibits (in spite of the many initial
> > difficulties as mentioned in the paper) the growth of using Java for
> > device drivers development. Contrast it against udev - esp in terms of
> > usability/supportability/extensibility etc. udev is a Linux thing,
> > whereas Java is at industry level. If everyone write applications
> > device drivers using Java (minus the extreme hardware arch specific
> > stuff, but supports all the low level protocol specific stuff like
> > TCP/IP, NFS, USB etc) then I think it has potential to compete against C
> > lang - the monopolizer till today in the kernel world
> > (Windows/MacOS/Linux/BSD etc). Ie, imagine using a drivers written for
> > the Solaris in Linux, won't it be cool?
>
>
> LOL.. good joke!
>
> But as others have pointed out, you missed April's fools by 1 day.
