Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Sep 1998 15:01:58 +1200 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Uniform Driver Interface (UDI) |
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On Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 04:06:02PM -0700, Gregory P. Smith wrote:
> Yes, but the time presumably covered where performance sucks but the > device actually works could be very nice. When performance is a problem > someone can write a real driver. Currently free OSes are often left to > the wolves to write drivers for new devices after they've been > released, shipping with winblows drivers and the likes.
You are allowed to re-compile, so presumably the interface can be made to look less sucky that otherwise might be the case if it were a link only interface.
We should be able to use cunning stunts (hmm... say when you've had a few too many) in the header files to minimize the suckage and with any luck may be able to strongly influence UDI simple because linux has such a large userbase and some-many drivers already exist (although, GPL'd drivers aren't going to be of much use for SCO/Sun).
-cw
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