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by kev009 3542 days ago
There is reuse, for example iwm(4) is based on the Linux driver and pulls from it. But the process is manual, not like the Linux-KPI graphics and OFED stuff.

It would be great if Intel stepped up to the plate and helped.

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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

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...