Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262658AbVCKKn7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2005 05:43:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263260AbVCKKn7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2005 05:43:59 -0500 Received: from host-212-158-219-180.bulldogdsl.com ([212.158.219.180]:38050 "EHLO aeryn.fluff.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262658AbVCKKjP (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2005 05:39:15 -0500 Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:39:12 +0000 From: Ben Dooks To: Rik van Riel Cc: John Richard Moser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: binary drivers and development Message-ID: <20050311103912.GB16590@home.fluff.org> References: <423075B7.5080004@comcast.net> <423082BF.6060007@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Disclaimer: I speak for me, myself, and the other one of me. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 754 Lines: 21 On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 05:45:22PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, John Richard Moser wrote: > > > A Linux specific binary driver format might be more useful, > > No, it wouldn't. I can use a source code driver on x86, > x86-64 and PPC64 systems, but a binary driver is only > usable on the architecture it was compiled for. Add to that the flavours of ARM and the number of bootloaders that are out there. -- Ben (ben@fluff.org, http://www.fluff.org/) 'a smiley only costs 4 bytes' - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/