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		crudbug on Oct 11, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available I was thinking about a common driver interface similar to POSIX standard would solve the problem of multiple OS device support on a single hardware platform. There was an effort for Uniform Driver Interface (UDI)[0], looks like it is dormant. [0] http://wiki.osdev.org/Uniform_Driver_Interface

kev009 on Oct 11, 2016 [–]

People will probably wrinkle their forehead :) but NDIS is that and a lot of operating systems support it https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ndis&sektion=4&man...

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