About removing libc wrapper

[Alan Coopersmith]

pcpa at mandriva.com.br wrote:
>   I don't think we are going to have a sdk that would allow a
> vendor to distribe binaries that "just works" on Linux, FreeBSD,
> OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, etc, anytime soon, and "killing" the
> libc wrapper basically gives up on the hope of having that working,
> unless something better is being worked on.
>   "Binary only" vendor also usually provide their own libGL, video
> processing library, etc, so that is probably another reason to
> give up on hope about having a "binary compatible" api for
> different operating systems in the same processor architecture...

Has any vendor ever produced an interesting closed binary driver
that didn't have an associated kernel module?   (I'm only familiar
with the ones from ATI & nVidia, which both do.)

I'm all for making it easier to support BSD & Solaris, but does this
really do that?

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering