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| author | Pino Toscano <toscano.pino@tiscali.it> | 2013-03-15 16:37:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Pino Toscano <toscano.pino@tiscali.it> | 2013-03-15 16:37:56 +0100 |
| commit | 10a5ed091374ee5d6421e6c55afd86b13c0f52a3 (patch) | |
| tree | 95085219fb4ef1f53fe59cb9694aafcd4ce7cf00 /faq/how_about_drivers.mdwn | |
| parent | 64ab4a5a92923e79cd6711b903c5e01c8598f8ba (diff) | |
Reorganize the Hurd FAQ in a single place
move all the hurd faq pages to the top-level faq directory;
the faq.mdwn index now uses two simples map of all the subpages
(one for the debian items, and the other for the non-debian items)
TODO: now some of the items would need better titles
Diffstat (limited to 'faq/how_about_drivers.mdwn')
| -rw-r--r-- | faq/how_about_drivers.mdwn | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/faq/how_about_drivers.mdwn b/faq/how_about_drivers.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0e1887ba --- /dev/null +++ b/faq/how_about_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 drivers in userland processes, +which provides both long-term support for new hardware and safety against driver +bugs. |