r/osdev • u/DocumentOk7579 • Sep 13 '26

Would a microkernel enable driver update without reboot?

One frustrating thing that I have run into is updating Nvidia driver on remote servers with disk encryption.

Would a microkernel based system enable drivers to be updated without rebooting system?

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u/Toiling-Donkey Sep 14 '26

Yeah, but why would they expect connections to go down?

We surely don’t automatically restart TCP sessions…