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I would be very curious to know the thoughts of HN readers: Is it a good idea (define a system wide spec to remove the need for drivers etc.)? Seems to make se
by columboslastq 7y ago
I would be very curious to know the thoughts of HN readers: Is it a good idea (define a system wide spec to remove the need for drivers etc.)?
Seems to make sense to me, but i know nothing. If someone defined one, an emulator could be written. may even be able to prove some gain that would make it attractive for a manufacturer to impliment it.
- sp332 7y agoI like the idea, yeah. Virtual machines running in Xen hypervisors can be very small because they can make a lot of assumptions about the "hardware" they are running on. And as a negative example, every Android ROM has to be compiled and distributed separately for each model of phone it supports, because ARM platforms don't have a BIOS layer so they can't generalize.