The first paart would be a hardware layer. It would do nothing but
sit on a device (say a parallel port) and remember things, like the
status bits for the various lines or the sound levels on a sound card or
the IRQ/IO address and packet counts for ethernet cards. This would
remain in the kernel.
Then you could have the specific drivers/modules load and unload as
needed? All of these devices have identical/nearly identical sets of
resources, right? Or is that something that just doesn't happen on intel
platforms?
Christian G. Holtje (aka Doctor What)
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