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Linux has been moving towards hybrid drivers for certain components for a while now. I think you can run large parts of the filesystem and network stack in use
by panpanna 7y ago
Linux has been moving towards hybrid drivers for certain components for a while now.
I think you can run large parts of the filesystem and network stack in user-land now.
- pjmlp 7y agoThere is a big difference is that the other OSes are doing it no matter how many pitchforks come into their way, while with Linux you need to find a security conscious distribution.
- Matthias247 7y agoI think it’s hard to say that without knowing what’s going on in that companies and how many internal disagreements had been there. And even if Apple now talks about user-Mode drivers - do we even know what percentage they aim for?
- pjmlp 7y agoYes we do, as they presented at WWDC, all of them. They are following a two release steps, in release N, the user space drivers for a specific class get introduced and the respective kernel APIs are automatically deprecated. In release N + 1, those deprecated APIs will be removed.