f9 2.6.25 kernel driver module capability question

Skunk Worx skunkworx at verizon.net
Mon Jun 16 21:36:20 UTC 2008


Ric Moore wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 21:10 -0700, Skunk Worx wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We use fedora at work and are trying to port our driver from F7 to F9.
>>
>> I am acting as gopher for our system architect so please be liberal with 
>> any commentary. I won't be able to post his feedback to any 
>> comments/questions (as necc.) until Tuesday evening.
>>
>> I believe he wants our applications (running as non-root user) to be 
>> able to open his driver, and the driver to be able to run at real-time 
>> priority. We did this in F7 without any apparent issues.
>>
>> Any help, comments, suggestions are greatly appreciated.
> 
> What is the driver for? Ric

Our cards. The cards do high data rate acquisition. They use a PCI-X 
interface, altera PLDs and a fiber interconnect to pass low latency data 
between a front end acquisition system and a small cluster (ring) of 
Fedora boxes for follow-on analysis.

---
John




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