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Before I jump headlong into C#... I've always felt that C, or maybe C++, was best for developing drivers on Windows. I'm not keen on the idea of developing a driver on a .NET machine. But .NET seems to be the way MS is heading for applications development, and so I'm now wondering: Are people are using C# to develop drivers? Do you have to do a lot of API hooks, or does C# have the facilities to interface with the kernel without a lot of hackery? Can anyone speak to the reliability and safety of running a C# program closer to Ring 0 than would normally be the case? I want my devices to be

I just installed eclipse, the android sdk and jdk on a fresh installation for 64 bit fedora 14 , but by the time i create a new project i am getting the following error in the console: android-sdks/build-tools/17.0.0/aapt: error while loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory i am using a 64bit machine and i need to install some 32bit drivers, so i am trying to install: sudo apt-get install ia32-libs Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package ia32-libs Anyone help me how to resolve 64bit fedora 14

I want to know the difference between FIQ and IRQ interrupt system in any microprocessor, e.g: ARM926EJ. A feature of modern ARM CPUs (and some others). From the patent: A method of performing a fast interrupt in a digital data processor having the capability of handling more than one interrupt is provided. When a fast interrupt request is received a flag is set and the program counter and condition code registers are stored on a stack. At the end of the interrupt servicing routine the return from interrupt instructions retrieves the condition code register which contains the status of the