Re: UDI

[Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 05:05:00PM +0300, Momchil Velikov wrote:
> Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > As the specification is free, the only question is if the implementation of
> > UDI will be free. Otherwise I can't see a problem.
> 
> It sure will -- if we write it ourselves.

Yes. The main concern is then if the drives will be free. Of course, only
free drivers are acceptable. But for basic hardware (VGA display, keyboard,
serial devices) this should not be too hard.

> OTOH, UDI looks like a performance killer in some aspects, e.g.
> physical device access. You can see a recent thread on lkml.

That would be the linux kernel mailing list.

Of course. I don't talk of making UDI the main entry point for devices at
all (there are many alternatives for that).
I was only checking if the use of UDI in KGI could cause license problems
and if yes in which ways.

Thanks,
Marcus


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