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> Device managers don't care about Linux anyway, and wouldn't suddenly start caring if Linux announced a stable ABI. From what I've seen, facilitating propriet
by catalogia 7y ago
> Device managers don't care about Linux anyway, and wouldn't suddenly start caring if Linux announced a stable ABI.
From what I've seen, facilitating proprietary drivers seems like the motivation of most people lamenting the lack of a stable ABI. An example of this being the comment I responded to; "Linux purposely makes proprietary drivers crap. [...]"
Discounting proprietary drivers under the assumption that they wouldn't be written anyway, what does a stable ABI afford us? Out-of-tree FOSS drivers? In other words, drivers that aren't good enough to be accepted into the kernel?
- Polylactic_acid 7y agoOut of tree foss drivers are still not affected since you could most of the time just recompile them to work with the latest kernel. Also when I said linux made proprietary drivers crap I meant that as a good thing. It lead to open source drivers where there otherwise would not have been. Some OEMs like AMD eventually went open source on linux while remaining proprietary on windows.