Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:34:26 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Free Linux Driver Development! |
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Roland Dreier wrote: > I disagree -- Linux today gets drivers not just from volunteers > writing drivers from specs, but also from vendors writing drivers and > volunteers writing drivers via reverse engineering. And many of those > drivers don't work on every platform and aren't supported by > enterprise distros. And when the community loses interest, drivers > are left to bitrot.
Which of these actively maintained and supported drivers work on only one platform[1], and are excluded from enterprise distros? Can we truly count them as "many", as you repeatedly claim?
Jeff
[1] obviously excluding drivers for hardware where its only possible to occur on one platform, like SoC devices
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