From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,fc35bf7ba6fca42d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "fabio de francesco" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: "new" word Date: 16 Mar 2005 05:17:46 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1110979066.109103.299470@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> References: <1110966980.482176.111570@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <3297984.Y1VDRVLb6y@jellix.jlfencey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.49.51.212 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1110979071 27286 127.0.0.1 (16 Mar 2005 13:17:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:17:51 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.49.51.212; posting-account=Lp02jQ0AAABMd3TAghNf0TM2YBZqD_JE Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9481 Date: 2005-03-16T05:17:46-08:00 List-Id: 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