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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> | 2013-03-19 18:47:23 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> | 2013-03-19 18:47:23 +0100 |
| commit | d166bfaaa3ddf8b83b5cc6bde62f8872e6a80c82 (patch) | |
| tree | 4d8a8904c2c49122c37895ed4573a5fcbd19ed4f /faq/support/0-drivers.mdwn | |
| parent | 64f867bbc45d265009a1bad590bc1d4d9ea91d6e (diff) | |
| parent | ce8c2531cdb7ee05784437da4c38459e5d3897d6 (diff) | |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'savannah/master'
As part of the merge, fix some typos, add copyright and licensing headers, and
a few more minor changes.
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| -rw-r--r-- | faq/support/0-drivers.mdwn | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/faq/support/0-drivers.mdwn b/faq/support/0-drivers.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..974fb612 --- /dev/null +++ b/faq/support/0-drivers.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!meta title="What drivers does GNU/Hurd have?"]] + +Currently, for disks Mach integrates drivers from Linux 2.0 through some +[[community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code]]. As it's very old, that +limits hardware support a lot, of course. For network boards, we use the +[[DDE]] toolkit to run linux 2.6.32 drivers in userland processes, +which provides both long-term support for new hardware and safety against driver +bugs. |