[pabs3]

Standard protocols between hardware and operating system drivers are the way to go, then you get to implement drivers for each hardware class (mouse, disk, keyboard etc) once and use all new hardware, instead of having the hardware vendor need to write new proprietary blobs for every new piece of hardware and every OS.

For example I read on LWN that hardware vendors are starting to look at Linux virtio for hardware agnostic protocols.

https://lwn.net/Articles/805235/

[ksec]

>For example I read on LWN that hardware vendors are starting to look at Linux virtio for hardware agnostic protocols.

It is interesting that abstraction always comes a full Circle.