[cgl_discussion] Re: [OCF]draft 0.8 of the SAF Application Interface specification

[Mika Kukkonen]

On ti, 2003-01-07 at 08:36, Timothy D. Witham wrote:
> 
(...)
>   I think that we will find that there is a bit of a gap between what
> the SAF has specified and the base functionality that the OS has to
> implement. I can't be sure as we (OSDL) haven't seen the spec but in
> talking to people who have it seems that the SAF is aimed more at
> application portability at the middleware level and not talking directly
> to the OS.

This of course is the direct result of SAForum being "OS agnostic", i.e.
the only thing they assume about OS is that it is POSIX compliant.

>   But I think that the SAF folks want to resolve this so that we can
> start looking and determine what needs to be implemented as base OS
> functionality and start filling in the gaps. 

This "filling the gap" between SAF and Linux is of course one of the 
main goals of CGL-WG.

--MiKu