Messages in this thread | | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sockreg2.4.5-05 inet[6]_create() register/unregister table | Date | Sat, 09 Jun 2001 00:46:58 +0100 |
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acahalan@cs.uml.edu said: > Consider a chunk of x86 instructions using a home-grown OS > abstraction layer, and drivers that implement that layer for both > Linux and any non-GPL operating system. The binary blob is obviously > not derived from Linux, and may in fact run without modification in a > BSD or Solaris/x86 kernel.
> There is in fact just such a layer. It might not currently have the > features needed to implement TCP, but it could be extended as needed.
Sounds like you're talking about UDI. I thought that had died the horrible slow death it deserved - only to be dusted off, redone in CPU-agnostic bytecode and called ACPI.
-- dwmw2
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