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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
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+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
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+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
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+[[!tag faq/support faq/_important]]
+
+[[!meta title="What drivers does GNU/Hurd have?"]]
+
+Currently, for disks Mach integrates drivers from Linux 2.0 through some
+[[community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code]].  As it's very old, that
+limits hardware support a lot, of course.  For network boards, we use the
+[[DDE]] toolkit to run linux 2.6.32 drivers in userland processes,
+which provides both long-term support for new hardware and safety against driver
+bugs.  [[microkernel/mach/gnumach/ports/Xen]] is also supported, both blkfront
+and netfront.
+
+Note however that we have of course not tested all drivers, we obviously don't
+even have all kinds of hardware. So we can not promise that they will all
+work. What probably works for sure is what we usually use: the rtl8139 or e1000
+drivers for instance.