Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Loadable drivers [was SMP/cc Cluster description ] | Date | Wed, 05 Dec 2001 12:04:18 -0800 | From | erich@uruk ... |
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I wrote:
> This really goes into a side-topic, but plainly: > > The general driver/random module framework in Linux really needs to get > separated from the core kernel, and made so that it doesn't need to be > recompiled between minor kernel versions. Perhaps even pulling the > drivers in general apart from each other, just aggregating releases for > convenience.
...and licensing issues aside (probably only GPL for the moment), this kind of thing could form the basis for an open-source kernel/OS-independent set of drivers.
I know that I have been intending on doing a Linux driver compatibility layer of sorts for my OS project (going to be GPL'd) I'm working on.
Maybe there are some others interested in this kind of project?
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