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Or for the Linux kernel to settle down and have a stable ABI finally.
by Asooka 10y ago
Or for the Linux kernel to settle down and have a stable ABI finally.
- catern 10y agoLinux will (thankfully) never do that because that would be an example of compromising technical quality for political reasons (mediating the problem that hardware makers are not publishing source).
- pas 10y agoCurrently the ABI is very much the current code of each subsystem. It's pretty much impossible to design an ABI that'll be future proof enough that it'd cover everything and yet would provide finetuned interfaces for each new gadget the kernel has to manage without significant loss of performance and/or functionality.