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How About Drivers In Devices?

Posted by Cliff on from the the-next-step dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "I was setting up a new system the other day and after trying to find 30,000 different device drivers, it hit me: What's wrong with the idea of having basic drivers for common OSes in a flash ROM embedded within devices, so that when we plug the device in, the driver is then downloaded to the machine in question? You could always update it or override the process, but it would sure save us a lot of scrambling around for disks. Am I the only one who has thought of this?"

3 of 103 comments (clear)

  1. Re:IBM project by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 2, Funny

    He is part of team that write Perl to download driver for IBM server.

    Willy Wang: What meaning of this?
    Lionel Twain: Is the. Is the. What IS THE meaning of this! Use your god-damned articles and prepositions!

    (Sorry, no offense. Your post made me think of that great line from Murder By Death, and I just cracked myself up.)

    --

    I write in my journal
  2. Re:We were just having this discussion today! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    XML will save us!

    <mouse-event>
    <type>
    move
    </type>
    <xdelta unit='twip'>
    300
    </xdelta>
    <ydelta unit='twip'>
    300
    </ydelta>
    <wheeldelta unit='clicks'>
    0
    </wheeldelta>
    <button index='1'>
    0
    </button>
    <button index='2'>
    0
    </button>
    <button index='3'>
    0
    </button>
    <x-retinalscanner>
    12381737378931731987397821312
    </x-retinalscanner>
    </mouse-event>

    Hmmm...of course we may need to use firewire or USB2 for our mice... ...or maybe we could bzip2 it...

  3. Re:Why not? I'll tell you why not.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    along with another card (so you can see what you are doing)
    you, sir, are not geeky enough to be reading slashdot.