Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Open letter to the UDI folks? | Date | 20 Sep 1998 02:19:00 GMT |
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Followup to: <19980920003034.61817@uni-koblenz.de> By author: ralf@uni-koblenz.de In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > I've looked for a contact address for the UDI people, but have yet to find > > one. Anybody got a line? > > As member of the non-Intel faction I also have to object any non-OSD > drivers. From point of architectures like ARM or MIPS many x86 only > drivers are basically unusable without heavy fixing. >
That is too bad, because otherwise an Architecture-Independent Distribution Format (typically a partially compiled version of C) could be used.
Open Source drivers are clearly preferrable, but personally I don't know if it is realistic to get for all hardware, especially given the dominance of Windoze.
-hpa
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