From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: lost.goblin@gmail.com Received: by 10.236.110.2 with HTTP; Sun, 7 Aug 2011 10:07:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <81fd2f60-5548-4a8b-a3ef-dfc4799ff43d@h7g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> References: <81fd2f60-5548-4a8b-a3ef-dfc4799ff43d@h7g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2011 19:07:34 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 93XzBzjBkK4mxgeCOAUo9NvX99o Message-ID: Subject: Re: DDE - interesting or horrible? From: Uriel To: 9front@googlegroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 No. On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 2:50 PM, staalmannen wrote: > 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/