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Subject: DDE - interesting or horrible?
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The L4 guys [1] (and later the HURD guys [2, 3]) have apparently been
able to re-use some linux drivers through a library-based approach.
Would a similar approach be interesting as a temporary way to get a
wider range of drivers fast-and-dirty ported to a Plan9 kernel?

[1] http://wiki.tudos.org/DDE/DDEKit
[2] http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/user/zhengda.html
[3] http://www.archhurd.org/