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Linux has just as much native support for such things as Windows does, if not more.
by monocasa 4y ago
Linux has just as much native support for such things as Windows does, if not more.
- jazzyjackson 4y agoI mean maybe you're right at this point but it's not like the reputation is undeserved
- monocasa 4y agoI mean, we're going on close to 30 years or so that Linux has had parity with Windows for the kind of driver we're talking about: loadable kernel driver for a weird accelerator core that takes firmware but doesn't really fit into a driver model otherwise. On Linux this is a module that exposes a character device with one off ioctls. On Windows this a kernel mode driver that exposes a Device object with one off DeviceIoControls. I really don't think the reputation is deserved in this case, both kernels added equivalent support for this workflow back in the 90s.