Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:39:20 +0600 From: Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net> To: Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org> Cc: FreeBSD-Current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Generic Kernel API Message-ID: <20051109093920.GA45506@samodelkin.net> In-Reply-To: <20051108232855.2d1b7df5.lists@yazzy.org> References: <20051108232855.2d1b7df5.lists@yazzy.org>
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Hi! On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 11:28:55PM +0000, Marcin Jessa wrote: > I just came across an article of Mr. Greg Kroah-Hartman in his blog > http://www.kroah.com/log/2005/11/03/ > about generic kernel API which could make it possible for hardware > vendors to supply us with their own drivers. > To be honest I disagree with Greg and consider this a good idea. > Especially if we had a system which could isolate each device driver > running as a separate user-mode process so it would not bring down the > entire OS in case the driver was buggy. > An API like that would both boost up FreeBSD's popularity and make it > possible to use a way larger variety of hardware. > I mean, lets not fool ourselves, the majority of hardware vendors is > not interested in revealing of their secrets publishing freely > avaliable documentation of their products. > We could have a new choice to use (or not) binary drivers the > same way the popular commercial O.Ss do. > What do you guys think? What is the view of the > FreeBSD community on this metter? > Could this be concerned as a good idea ? You can extend ndisulator so that it is possible to use other kinds of win32 drivers under FreeBSD. /fjoe
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