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(New page: Simple overview: * NFU server -- "adjacent" to IBP depot. * NFU Op -- lightweight program, written in C, or Java, depending on server. * NFU client -- launches nfuOps and exchanges data wi...) |
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Revision as of 08:24, 1 July 2008
Simple overview:
- NFU server -- "adjacent" to IBP depot.
- NFU Op -- lightweight program, written in C, or Java, depending on server.
- NFU client -- launches nfuOps and exchanges data with it.
- 2 types of data exchange:
- 1. variable exchange -- data passed directly between NFU Client and NFU Op
NFU_VAL_IN
- 2. IBP Cap handling
NFU_IBP_RD, client sends an IBP Cap to server, NFU Op does not receive cap, but a pointer to a mmap of the cap.