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diff --git a/2008/how_and_why_kernel-fht2008/html/mgp00016.txt b/2008/how_and_why_kernel-fht2008/html/mgp00016.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..25a974a --- /dev/null +++ b/2008/how_and_why_kernel-fht2008/html/mgp00016.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +How and why to work with the Linux kernel community +Linux and binary compatibility + + +Linux and binary compatibility +Drivers usually run inside the OS kernel +Linux doesn't have any stable kernel-internal ABI +Linux doesn't even have stable kernel-internal API +Only the ABI to userspace is stable/fixed + +Thus, every minor Linux release can break in-kernel ABI+API +This is why binary-only drivers simply don't work! + |