Don,
I respect people who do parallel algorithm’s but this has little to do with driver developlment
The guy just refuses to understand that there is no such thing as generic driver development - all your experience in the field A is of very little help when it comes to the field B. For example,
your experience in Linux kernel-level development is of very little use when it comes to writing drivers for Windows. This is not just the question of API (i.e. the way this guy thinks) but purely of system architecture. Actually, the same applies to different driver architectures in Windows. For example, if you are NDIS guru, it does not mean that you are able to start writing file system filters
straight away, and vice versa - learning all ins and outs of an architecture that is new for you is going to take you quite a while. This is particularly true in Windows world because you have no access to the source code, and the official documentation is, softly speaking, “incomplete”…
The guy refuses to understand all that - in his opinion, " chips of more complex nature already have existing stacks that interact with not just one OS but several OSes". What can we say to someone
who thinks this way???
Anton Bassov