Brian Gupta writes: > > > What if someone were to attempt to reverse engineer the kernel > > > interface for Linux strictly by reading what is available on the web. > > > (Commentary) > > > > Doable in theory, probably worthless in practice given the kernel > > interface churn. No DDI == no reason for stability. > > I don't think it is worthless, because another OS (OpenSolaris) could > freeze the interface at a certain kernel interface and make it a > secondary DDI. (You can pretty much always find drivers for 2.4 right?
Over any reasonable time span? Probably not. I wouldn't stop someone else from doing it if they felt they were doing some good, but I'd be extremely dubious of the results. > And it has the added benefit of allowing third party developers to > compile there drivers on OpenSolaris without any GPL worries. Yep. I'm not a lawyer, either, but I see no reason why that part would be a problem. > P.S. - It may end up being more trouble than it's worth, but it is > definitely not useless. I'd say that "more trouble than it's worth" is one of the key components of uselessness. :-/ -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
