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authorSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2010-09-01 00:05:50 +0200
committerSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2010-09-01 00:05:50 +0200
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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 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, Mach integrates drivers from Linux 2.0 through some glue code. As
+it's very old, that limits hardware support a lot, of course. We are however
+working on using the DDE toolkit to run linux drivers in userland processes,
+which provides both long-term support for new hardware and safety against driver
+bugs.