[fpc-pascal] Building kernel modules using fpc (for fun)

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Sat Jan 15 21:50:34 CET 2011


On 15.01.2011 20:57, Henry Vermaak wrote:
> On 15 January 2011 19:48, Sven Barth<pascaldragon at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>> On 15.01.2011 20:32, Lukasz Sokol wrote:
>>>
>>> Is this something I should ask here or at kernel-newbies ? :)
>>
>> I might not be able to help you regarding this topic, but I believe that
>> you'll get a wall of "use C, god damnit" if you ask there :P
>
> Heh, well, :)  It's pretty cool for simple drivers.  I don't think you
> can get very far without translating a huge amount of header files and
> nasty macros, though.

I don't say that writing kernel modules in Pascal is bad (I even wrote 
the equivalent for Windows NT), but I bet that the guys on a Linux 
kernel list will think otherwise. :P

Regards,
Sven



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