Device Drivers
This cluster focuses on challenges in developing, porting, and standardizing device drivers for operating systems like Linux, including debates on kernel vs. userspace drivers, hardware compatibility, and firmware integration.
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Proprietary device drivers come to mind..
Device drivers can be divorced from the core os.
This is a driver interface. If it is not standardized, we get that ugly situation where an userspace app only works with hardware from a specific vendor.
OS / driver development needs to be done on bare metal sometimes.
Was already done, many times. Device drivers is the issue it never took off.
The hardware's the easy part - then you have to write a device driver for one of these systems
What's to check out there wrt kernel drivers?
they do, using drivers, that is too novel idea for linux.
It's Unix. Write better drivers yourself.
They actually reuse Linux driver stack for hardware compatibility