Re: Project Proposal: An Standard Driver Virtual Machine

From: Dmitry Salychev <dsl_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2024 09:07:49 UTC
Nimbly2329 <hjlftdygaqf@use.startmail.com> writes:

> Motivation:
>
> In is not a obscure fact that driver development is the hardest part in both maintaining and creating an operating system, and
> that FreeBSD struggles to keep the pace with Linux and Windows. And is the the number one cause that there is no way of
> developing novel and viable operating systems.
>
> Plan:
>
> (1) We and maybe with the cooperation of another public source kernel/OS projects develop a Standard Driver Virtual
> Machine, (2) and then we manage to get it implemented in at least Linux, so that Linus et al. promote that all new drivers
> shall be written against the Standard Driver Virtual Machine. (3) Finally profit in little to no effort in porting drivers from Linux.

I wish we had more Spare Time Investment proposals instead of project
ones :)

Regards,
Dmitry

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