Re: binary drivers and development

[Ben Dooks]

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.

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