They can't get the specs either. The hardware folks roll over for
Microsoft; by and large, they don't for Sun or SCO. And if it comes to Sun
forking out $$$ for specs for the latest GeeWhizzo SCSI controller and pizza
maker or using the binary UDI driver, they're quite likely to do the latter
--- especially when the same decision must be made for every new piece of
hardware that appears. The original reason for UDI was to try to reduce
that cost by spreading it over all the Unix vendors, so it's clear that this
*is* an issue for them.
And the whole binary-drivers issue is in direct contradiction to Kevin
Quick's comments about how *we* are supposed to write UDI drivers for the
commercial folks.... <URL:http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/1998/37/ns-5501.html>
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university
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