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Idea
#10463: Stable userland driver binary interface
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Written by natureflow the 29 Jun 08 at 13:46.
Category: System.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
Binary drivers on top of a stable application binary interface makes it feasible for hardware manufacturers to release device drivers without source code. Also drivers can be run with restricted rights.
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droetker wrote on the 29 Jun 08 at 15:45
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look here:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Kernel_Driver_Statement
We should NOT support binary drivers more, but help/ support manufactureres to make open source drivers. Linux has more drivers than any otehr OS, and on the long run, opensource will succeed.
This would be a backstep, so -1.
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Arnaudus wrote on the 29 Jun 08 at 16:06
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The issue is conmplicated. Proprietary drivers are bad, and we should avoid them. If you offer help to the manufacturers to include proprietary drivers in Ubuntu, they will be encouraged to do that. The balance is probably very difficult to find.
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steve196 wrote on the 29 Jun 08 at 18:32
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If Linux wats to get on the desktop, this is a must. People will refuse to do research before buying hardware. Preferably this should be done as a serises of wrappers around Windows drivers (like ndiswrapper), so no extra driver has to be written.
Generally Linux should not rely on collaboration from hardware manufacturers. The userbase is too small for that.
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