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Subject: Re: [9fans] apropos of the glendix post
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> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> wrote:
>> there are more people working on stop-gap solutions than drivers so I
>> wonder how long we'll have to wait for the drivers to be written :)
>
> given the increasing use of binary blobs, maybe forever.
>
> ron
>

Perhaps integrating support for vendor binary-only drivers would be
worthwhile...woulden't this also provide a good excuse to do ioctl as
well?*


*(kidding...kidding...)