Re: What do you think about UDI?

David Woodhouse (Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 31 Mar 1998 22:13:07 +0200

pkoning@xedia.com said:
> Most drivers are largely OS specific code (the actual hardware
> fondling is in the minority). Abstracting that in a meaningful way to
> a meaningful range of operating systems is unlikely to succeed,
> unless you don't mind having no performance at all.

However, the other targets OSes listed are at least Unices. It's not like
trying to support WinNT device drivers.

And we're trying to avoid having "no performance at all". Bad performance is
better than no performance, so until a native Linux driver for the hardware can
be written, an abstracted driver provided by the manufacturer is surely a
viable alternative?

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