Can you provide a sample of what would be contained in that bag that an average computing device user in 2014 would have a chance of owning?
My TV has it's own OS. My fridge as well. My house thermostat too. The drivers for the toy I bought for kids (sphero) are inside the thing, it also has it's own os and interfaces via tcp/ip to an userland app on the ios device. Same does the parrot drone. There are drivers for the subsystems, you are 100 correct. But they are part of the distro, ie they are not 3rd party maintained plug ins.
What I'm pointing out is that the OS model seems to have changed. There's less and less third party code in drivers kernel side; the plug in stuff is getting smarter and interfaces via client-server approaches to other userland processes. There's less and less standalone HW that needs to be driven directly kernel side.
And I earned another downvote! Maybe I should go post elsewhere as my comments are clearly not hacker news- valued? Would any downvoters be kind enough to let me in on why these comments are not valid discussion?
Can you provide a sample of what would be contained in that bag that an average computing device user in 2014 would have a chance of owning?
My TV has it's own OS. My fridge as well. My house thermostat too. The drivers for the toy I bought for kids (sphero) are inside the thing, it also has it's own os and interfaces via tcp/ip to an userland app on the ios device. Same does the parrot drone. There are drivers for the subsystems, you are 100 correct. But they are part of the distro, ie they are not 3rd party maintained plug ins.
What I'm pointing out is that the OS model seems to have changed. There's less and less third party code in drivers kernel side; the plug in stuff is getting smarter and interfaces via client-server approaches to other userland processes. There's less and less standalone HW that needs to be driven directly kernel side.
And I earned another downvote! Maybe I should go post elsewhere as my comments are clearly not hacker news- valued? Would any downvoters be kind enough to let me in on why these comments are not valid discussion?
TIA!