On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 08:43:12 -0500
Michael Chaney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thankfully, XFree 4 has the idea of a video driver. That's better than
> grabbing another binary. But, it underscores the fact that drivers
> belong in the kernel.
That's got me thinking... if the drivers were compiled in the kernel, it
might be faster, but that would mean the kernel would have to be
constantly recompiled to handle new hardware, wouldn't it? Even if it
sacrficed some performance, wouldn't it be better to keep drivers as
separate files that would just be called up when required? That way,
things stay modular and the kernel stays smaller.
I'm just shooting at the moon here. I could be totally wrong.
God bless!
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