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diff --git a/faq/support/+drivers.mdwn b/faq/support/+drivers.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..974fb612 --- /dev/null +++ b/faq/support/+drivers.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +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]]."]]"""]] + +[[!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. |