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  1. Re:Stabilize the API by Deven · · Score: 1 · on Know Any Hardware Needing Better Linux Support?

    A very good use of these folks' time would be to reach some milestones on the Linux driver API so that the dang thing will stop changing all the time.

    An even better use of their time would be to write drivers for the Project UDI interface, since those people spent many years perfecting a stable, cross-platform API only to have the project stall because of the chicken-and-egg problem. Nobody wanted to support UDI without a base of drivers to use, and nobody wanted to write drivers without a base of operating systems supporting UDI.

    I still think it would make Linux more useful to split the difference and occasionally define an interface (doesn't have to be the default as long as you can ask for it somehow) which is guaranteed to work for some number of years.

    There is a UDI reference implementation for Linux, although it's probably suffered from bit rot by now. If UDI were properly supported, kernel and driver development could be decoupled, and the kernel folks could experiment with their side quite extensively without requiring the slightest code change for the drivers. (It might require a recompile in certain circumstances.)

    Wouldn't that be worthwhile?

  2. Re:Sounds familiar by AJWM · · Score: 3, Informative · on Developers Lose With Proprietary Software

    Lol, I'd be willing to bet if Sun went under there would be some major difficulties in the industry.

    How much money are you willing to lose on that bet?

    There are plenty of free or open source and third party sources for Java compilers, JVMs, bytecode compilers, class libraries and related apps.

    Sun could disappear tomorrow and Java would continue.

  3. Re:Why UDI is a GOOD thing. by corinath · · Score: 1 · on Writing Drivers For Multiple Operating Systems?

    Actually, a company called Software Technology Group is working on the UDI implementation for both Linux x86 and Linux PowerPC.
    Hockey - Canada's gift to the world

  4. Re:they already are! by lemmingEffect · · Score: 1 · on Writing Drivers For Multiple Operating Systems?

    ha! the second press release is actually here.

  5. they already are! by lemmingEffect · · Score: 1 · on Writing Drivers For Multiple Operating Systems?
    these folks are working on the linux udi implementation.

    it seems they are already in a test phase. you can read their two relevant press releases here and here.


  6. they already are! by lemmingEffect · · Score: 1 · on Writing Drivers For Multiple Operating Systems?
    these folks are working on the linux udi implementation.

    it seems they are already in a test phase. you can read their two relevant press releases here and here.


  7. they already are! by lemmingEffect · · Score: 1 · on Writing Drivers For Multiple Operating Systems?
    these folks are working on the linux udi implementation.

    it seems they are already in a test phase. you can read their two relevant press releases here and here.