From: "fabio de francesco" <fmdf@tiscali.it>
Subject: Re: "new" word
Date: 16 Mar 2005 05:17:46 -0800
Date: 2005-03-16T05:17:46-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1110979066.109103.299470@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2005.03.16.12.09.55.6152@ID-174572.user.uni-berlin.de>
Thomas Lotze wrote:
> Adrian Knoth wrote:
>
> > Another way would be to specify the Kernel-ABI, but I don't expect
this to
> > happen earlier than Hurd ;)
>
> I think it's a conscious choice not to specify the Linux ABI.
Something
> about binary-only drivers being discouraged...
>
> --
> Thomas
This is not true. Device drivers can be dinamically loaded as binaries,
provided they conforms to some kind od Linux Kernel-ABI for kernel
loadable modules and they must use some exported kernel functions (like
init_module() and cleanup_module()).
fabio de francesco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-16 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-16 9:56 "new" word fabio de francesco
2005-03-16 10:30 ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2005-03-16 11:14 ` Adrian Knoth
2005-03-16 11:42 ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2005-03-16 12:09 ` Thomas Lotze
2005-03-16 13:17 ` fabio de francesco [this message]
2005-03-16 13:25 ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2005-03-16 13:40 ` fabio de francesco
2005-03-16 14:34 ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2005-03-16 13:01 ` fabio de francesco
2005-03-17 15:09 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2005-03-16 13:49 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-03-16 13:55 ` Florian Weimer
2005-03-17 14:38 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2005-03-16 16:23 ` Robert A Duff
2005-03-16 11:07 ` Adrien Plisson
2005-03-16 11:36 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-03-16 12:53 ` fabio de francesco
2005-03-16 13:10 ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2005-03-16 16:20 ` Robert A Duff
2005-03-18 4:10 ` Wes Groleau
2005-03-18 12:04 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-03-18 14:05 ` Martin Krischik
2005-03-16 22:12 ` Randy Brukardt
2005-03-18 4:03 ` Wes Groleau
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