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    SubjectRe: What exactly does "supports Linux" mean?
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    Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> writes:

    > > My general conclusion would be that something not working with a standard
    > > kernel cannot be called "supporting linux", no matter what distros ever are
    > > supported. You may call me purist...
    >
    > If their drivers don't come with full source code then their claims
    > of supporting Linux are just a bad joke AFAIC.

    Even when they do, it's often far from what I would call "Linux
    support". I've seen vendor drivers that made such assumptions about
    the machine that they would only work on IA-32 machines. I'm talking
    about things like assuming that sizof(int) == sizeof(void *) == 4, or
    that physical memory addresses are the same seen from the CPU and from
    the PCI bus.

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    Måns Rullgård
    mru@users.sf.net

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