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authorThomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>2011-10-10 17:34:01 +0200
committerThomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>2011-10-10 17:34:01 +0200
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news/2011-q2-ps <Device Drivers>: Rewording.
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@@ -76,18 +76,19 @@ the more common misunderstandings.
so often only VESA is available.
Also, X on the Hurd is [[somewhat_unstable|hurd/status]].
- * **The Hurd has weaker device support than Linux**:
- Most of the drivers we use today were imported from Linux 2.0.x.
+ * **The GNU/Hurd has weaker device driver support than the Linux kernel**:
+ Most of the drivers we use today were imported from Linux 2.0.
For network cards,
Linux 2.6.29 drivers are available through [[DDE|hurd/dde]] --
however, this is not fully integrated yet,
so using these drivers needs manual setup for now ([[hurd/dde/guide]]).
- Support for other driver types is also possible with DDE,
- but it requires some not-trivial work for each additional class of drivers --
+ Support for other driver types is also possible with DDE in principle,
+ but it requires some not-trivial work for each additional class of drivers,
so this can take some time to become available.
- (An additional benefit provided by DDE is that the device drivers run in userspace --
+ (An additional benefit provided by DDE is that the device drivers run as
+ regular user-space processes --
unlike the old drivers we were using so far,
- which are part of the underlying Mach microkernel.)
+ which are part of the underlying GNU Mach microkernel.)
* **The Hurd has SMP, but needs support for new chipsets**:
Both Mach (the microkernel used by the Hurd),