Re: Re[2]: x86 memsize > 1Gb patches.

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 17 Mar 1998 20:19:31 +0000 (GMT)

> non-technical user wants to do just to use a new piece of hardware and
> believe me no sane support department is going to want to deal with
> this. The end result is hardware vendors will (and do) avoid the Linux
> issue.

Nod. I'd much rather they simply provided people documentation. Binary
drivers are bad for everyone. Having said that I did -try- to make the
2.0.x binary interface for network drivers a constant, and failed. Two
security issues forced changes.

Alan

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