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COM completeness
One of the things that intrigues me about the OsKit
design is the possibility that it might be a good starting point for a family of
universal drivers. I am inclined to suspect that if a universal kernel driver
model existed, it would become easier to persuade vendors to do drivers for
operating systems, and easier for research systems to have a rich set of
drivers.
In order for this to be possible, it is necessary
to be able to implement the NetBSD, Linux, etc. driver interfaces on TOP of the
corresponding OsKit interfaces (presumably with a suitable translation
layer). This exercise would be an
interesting test of the "completeness" of the COM-defined APIs. I am curious if
anyone has tried this, even as a "thought experiment."
Ah, well. This is surely enough questions for one
night! :-)
Jonathan
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