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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 drivers in userland processes,
which provides both long-term support for new hardware and safety against driver
bugs.