Device drivers implemented as translators?

[Moritz Schulte <tux@gmx.li>]

Hello,

  is it possible/practical to implement device drivers under Hurd as
translators in user space? I think of removing all the device drivers
from GNUmach (or whatever micro kernel we use then ;), which already
make this micro kernel quite big. Then, you could for example settrans
/hurd/devices/floppy to /dev/fd0 and had your floppy drive available
as /dev/fd0. What do you think about it? Is it practical?
This would also make the Hurd more independent from the underlying
micro kernel, because it comes with its own device drivers.

	moritz
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