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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?"

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  1. Chicken and egg by ahy · · Score: 0, Redundant
    To read the driver from the embedded flash ROM, you would probably need another driver.

    ah.