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[openbeos] Re: Driver support...

  • From: Marco Zanon <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 22:28:20 +0200
> There is no need to port them over - they will just work out of
> the box, even without any recompilation.

yes, but I'm thinking in the long term too: maybe R2/R3 will 
break/reduce binary compatibility :)

> But the standard approach is
> that every driver type defines a certain interface; all
> networking drivers share one interface, etc.

I supposed it was something like this...

So, even if we don't have applications for scanning and connecting 
to video-cameras now, wouldn't it be good to have some kind of 
specifications (i.e.: function calls) for writing those kind of 
drivers, to avoid the feared (at least by me :) fragmentation? 
otherwise, the risk is to have 2-3 different standards in the 
long term...

thanks :)

Marco Zanon [http://www.marcozanon.com]

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