Re: [MiNT] XaAES / GEM memory issues

[Frank Naumann <fnaumann@freemint.de>]

Hello!

> First of all I do not propose to move all AES handling into the driver.
> Secondly, I cannot see why moving some selected high level functions
> into the device driver is generally wrong in any way. See for instance
> drivers for 3Com ethernet cards that implement some IP handling in
> hardware and advanced SCSI chipset like those found on Adaptec cards
> where the hardware performs large portions of the SCSI handling. One can
> also draw parallels to MiNTnet.

That's a complete another thing. A device driver drive a hardware. And
hardware is a defined point.

> But please enlighten me as to if there is any other possiblity of
> putting code in kernel space in a clean way without using a device
> driver? Surely you agree that a device driver is preferred over a TSR?

Hum, I speak all the time about kernel modules and not device drivers in
detail.


Tschuess
   ...Frank

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