[huskerlug] DRIVER TROUBLES VIRTUALLY UNFIXABLE

Becker: We'll never move beyond the booting and hardware provisioning problems 
because there's always new hardware coming out. Just about every month 
there's some changed device. For instance, you can't get the old chip 
anymore, or there's a new, higher performance I/O chip that's embedded in the 
system. You're always chasing device support. You always need to add just 
that one last device driver. 

That will never go away, and imagining that virtualization will make it go 
away is a mistake. One of the things that people doing virtual machines think 
they're going to get is only having to provision for one ideal virtual 
machine. You still have to deal with the underlying hardware, however, and 
the underlying hardware will always be getting better and always changing. 
That problem will never go away.

We're about to see another revolution, which is in network adapters -- that we 
[will] talk directly to [them] from application level. That's a massive 
change in how you interface with them. And that brings about a new round of 
device drivers completely unlike the device drivers we had 10 years ago. So, 
that part of the world isn't going to stabilize anytime soon.

http://go.techtarget.com/r/539304/1461419

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