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Re: Device Drivers



On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 11:10:18AM -0800, Justin  Langer wrote:
> 
> hai,
> 
> How are device drivers implemented in Hurd?
> In Linux we implement device drivers usually as a module in the Kernel
> and recompiling the kernel.
> 
> How are these handled here?

They are compiled into GNU Mach and specified at configure time (see
i386/README-Drivers in gnumach source).

Later they might be in user space...

Marcus

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