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SubjectRe: Open letter to the UDI folks?
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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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