@drq writing kernel may be not so hard...
but then come drivers
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@mo I mean, Linux kernel is literally estimated around billions of dollars in accumulated development costs. The largest project the humanity has ever created, and will probably ever create. "Just rewrite it, lol." @mo If there was some kind of standardized kernel module API/ABI and maybe also device driver API/ABI, it *probably* would have been easier to write a drop-in replacement for the central part of the OS kernel itself. It would have been damn fine if a standard like that existed. Device manufacturers could just write one driver for any number of OS. But there isn't. There just fucking isn't! I mean, microkernels notwithstanding. |
@drq oh, I read the article. Yeah, just read through all Linux code and implement all features and bugs. Simple enough for a few engineers, lol :tone_sarcasm:
Also:
https://pointersgonewild.com/2024/04/20/the-alternative-implementation-problem/