RE: Linux, UDI and SCO.
Jordan Mendelson (jordy@wserv.com)
Sat, 19 Sep 1998 17:31:02 -0400
> The stability of closed drivers is an issue, as is what sort of work will
> be required to get the kernel to support UDI. If it means doing things in
> some bass-ackward way, perhaps UDI is best left alone. But if it can be
> done cleanly, it probably should be done. After all, until Adaptec opened
> up, we supported the 2940 and such as best we could, but said 'buy
> Buslogic if you possibly can'. As has already been pointed out, it may
> be possible to implement the UDI framework such that it can give useful
> debugging info about what a UDI driver is doing, which would help both
> with pointing the finger at faulty OEM UDI drivers and with reverse
> engineering a native driver.
Curious, wouldn't having UDI drivers running under Linux make them fairly
easy to reverse engineer? I mean, the drivers will be calling linux kernel
functions through the UDI kernel interface, so if we trace every call we
should be able to get a gist of how the driver works.
Just something to think about.
Jordan
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