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>   There is a lot of UDI related mail on list, yet I can't find any piece
> about x86 "onlyness" of these binary-only drivers.

Thats because there isnt. UDI proof of concepts have been demonstrated
on 64bit and 32bit machines of both endianness.

For binary only drivers you can assume most vendors will build x86 only
however.

"We don't have the tools"
"We can't support a non intel build"
"We don't have that sort of machine"
"Its not worth the time cost"
"Whats an Alpha ?"


> Is it easier to insist on source-only drivers or x86-emulate kernel-space
> drivers? :) Or just leave non-x86 ports behind?

If you have source code you can fix the portability of a driver or file
system module. While not trivial its also not that demanding a task either
- providing you have such a machine ;)

Alan


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