Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 05 Dec 2005 16:23:57 -0800 | From | Tim Bird <> | Subject | Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario |
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Dave Airlie wrote: >>To the larger argument about supporting binary drivers, >>all Arjan manages to prove with his post is that, >>if handled in the worst possible way, support for >>binary drivers would be a disaster. Who can disagree >>with that? >> > And do you think that given the opportunity, any company is going > spend the extra money required to not do it in the worst possible > way??
I meant "handled in the worst possible way by the kernel developers". It *is* possible to define stable APIs and have them used successfully.
POSIX is not the greatest example, but it seems to work OK. I realize that drivers are more tightly bound to the kernel than are libraries or applications, but sheesh, this is not rocket science.
============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Electronics =============================
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