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> > 3. Wouldn't make a whole lot more sense to write a device
> > driver generator - where you feed it a configuration file - and it
> > generates the appropriate C driver code with
> > the appropriate hardware specific code in the write places...
>
> The same problem as with much other good ideas: Seems to be a good idea, but
> someone has to do it. And I'm quite sure that a hand-written driver will
> offer much better performance if the programmer writing it knows what he's
> doing.
This is sort of the same argument that was is about compilers versus
writing in straight assembly language. The compilers seems to have won
out.
-Tom
>
> Ciao, Matthias
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