Re: Device drivers in C#.NET

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From: William Stacey [MVP] (staceywREMOVE_at_mvps.org)
Date: 03/07/05 

Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 22:19:39 -0500

As I said, they are thinking about how it may look. It would not be today's
CLR - maybe a special kernel level CLR. It could be a special version for
driver development . As, TMK, it is not on drawing board yet, who knows
what they will (or even if they will) come up with. However as kernel level
drivers are historically tricky to get right and fatal if done wrong, it is
something I heard they want to look seriously at. Neal Christiansen (MS
US-Cor File Services) talks about todays issues, some work they have done in
the driver space, and talks a little about what some are thinking about in
this video on channel9: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=37302 

-- 
William Stacey, MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
"Gerry Hickman" <gerry666uk@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:#bfFL8qIFHA.1860@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> William Stacey [MVP] wrote:
>
> > Not today.  However that is something people over there are thinking
about.
>
> Really?? How exactly will .NET fit between the low-level APIs and the
> device controllers? Let's take a simple example of sending a StartUnit
> command to the first physical disk of a SCSI RAID-10 array.
>
> Let's say a disk defragmentation program then wants to re-arrange the
> blocks on said disk above, are you saying the calls it makes to the
> driver will be running in the CLR???
>
> Fogetting about all that for a minute; what exact advantages will .NET
> device drivers have over the current model?
>
> -- 
> Gerry Hickman (London UK)

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