Re: userspace drivers

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:40:56AM -0800, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> 
> What's official? =) I suspect that drivers will never all be copyrighted
> to the FSF, since there's almost no value in that, which means that they
> should never wind up in the Hurd repository.  On the other hand, having
> a sub project that deals with drivers and driver infrastracture would be
> very worthwhile.

do you mean the Hurd repository is not their place? when the Hurd runs on L4
it will certainly need userspace drivers..

> I would encourage you to work on it, and setup mailing lists and a
> documentation repository for those interested in working on it.  Having
> a nice texinfo doc would be really useful for interested newcomers.

might do when i get some time (probably won't start seriously on this
until next summer)

-- 
Robert Millan

"Omnis enim res, quad dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur,
nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est."

"For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is
not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared." 

                Aurelius Augustinus (354-430)