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		qPM9l3XJrF on April 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rustaceans at the border Could a new kernel implement a compatibility layer of some kind for Linux drivers? Or just expose the same API?

rcxdude on April 15, 2022 [–]

Not very easily: Linux quite deliberately does not have any stable internal driver interface, so any such compatibility layer would have a very fast moving target to keep up with.

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