RE: UDI

[Bill Moshier <billm@troikanetworks.com>]

Luthor -
This is the abstract from the UDI documents, book 1

Book 1: A Uniform Driver Interface - Rev 0.80 1
A Uniform Driver Interface Abstract
The Uniform Driver Interface (UDI) allows device drivers to be portable
across both hardware platforms and operating systems without any changes to
the driver source. With the participation of multiple OSs, platform and
device hardware vendors, UDI is the first interface which is likely to
achieve such portability on a wide scale. UDI provides an encapsulating
environment for drivers with well-defined interfaces which isolate drivers
from OS policies and from platform and I/O bus dependencies. This allows
driver development to be totally independent of O/S development. In
addition, the UDI architecture insulates drivers from platform specifics
such as byte-ordering, DMA implications, multi-processing, interrupt
implementations and I/O bus topologies. The formal UDI specifications are
currently available from the working group.

Back to my comments.... It appears to me that since the discussion is around
source, and the UDI documents are available, that there should be no reason
that developed source should not be GPL'd.  

Bill


-----Original Message-----
From: luther@maxime.u-strasbg.fr [mailto:luther@maxime.u-strasbg.fr]
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 1998 7:25 AM
To: Bill Moshier
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: UDI

snip....

i am not sure if i know everything i should on this subject, but are the UDI
driver source drivers, or binary only ? If the second is true they are no
good for linux, and also a big problem for other archs, and since intel is
pushing i ...



Friendly,

Sven LUTHER