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Subject: Re: User Space Emulation of Devices
To: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 23:34:22 +0100 (BST)
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> > How do you pass an ioctl ? If any parameter is a pointer you actually need a 
> > complex protocol for passing memory content to make it useful.
> > 
> You need a parameter marshalling system; however, they do exist.  It
> might actually be that the best way to deal with this is to make a
> general module framework and compile a specific module to marshall the
> parameters of the device you want to emulate.

Didnt someone announce a kernel mode corba daemon a while back ?