Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19 | From | Bernd Petrovitsch <> | Date | Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:34:18 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 10:56 +0100, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote: [....] > A small German manufacturer produces high-end AD converter cards. He sells > 100 pieces per year, only in Germany and only with Windows drivers. He would > now like to make his cards work with Linux. He has two driver programmers > with little experience in writing Linux kernel drivers. What do you tell him? > Write a large kernel module from scratch? Completely rewrite his code > because it uses floating point arithmetics?
Find a Linux kernel guru/company and pay him/them for -) an evaluation if it is "better" (for whatever better means) to port the driver or write it from scratch and -) do the better thing.
Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services
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