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From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:01:08 +0000
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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On 26 Nov 2009, at 9:25 am, Charles Forsyth wrote:

>> I don't know how hideously complicated it would be, to implement a
>> module
>> interface that would support loading linux modules into whatever
>> other OS
>> such as Plan 9.
>
> only as hideously complicated as the linux kernel interfaces might be,
> but sadly those are indeed hideously complicated. try tracing the
> source
> of a driver you care about (because that's the only way to help
> guess how
> the undocumented hardware might work). good luck. see you later.
> (much later.)
>
Indeed. Overheard in #plan9 recently: "Reading Linux driver source
code is where the fun stops." This may vary by device type, I think I
heard Linux framebuffer driver source was most useful to developers
of one OS.