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RHS Linux User (humbubba@raptor.cqi.com)
Tue, 22 Sep 1998 03:52:46 -0400 (EDT)
Pardon me "quoting" myself. I got the address wrong the first time.
>
> UDI is a spin-off of a flopped bus spec.
>
> It aims for very wide-band portability.
>
> Sun has an analagous thing that has layers of portability, the broadest of
> which is for supposedly any SV4 system. At that level the interface is about
> 5 commands, read, write, ioctl......
>
> As a large capable interested party in the Linux kernel, the UDI group is
> entitled to some suggestions for what is likely to be broadly accepted.
>
> I would suggest that it be a module (Hi Alex :o), and that it not add any
> dependancies other than source and header files to the kernel build. My guess is that how widely it's adopted is a matter of how well it works. And source will of course play more widely.
>
> Open Firmware exists, works well, and has the vestiges of something like this
> already. An O.F. device can export a driver to O.F., but the driver is used
> by O.F. for initialization and testing, not by the OS that O.F. may subsequentlyboot. Apparently many O.F. compliant devices have such drivers on them.
> And O.F. was basically written by an individual :o)
>
> What's a spinlock? It's not in the glossary of Rubini's very cost-effective
> book.
>
> There's no /dev/stack in linux, is there? Are any devices LIFOs?
>
>
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