Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Måns Rullgård) | Subject | Re: What exactly does "supports Linux" mean? | Date | 13 May 2003 22:36:01 +0200 |
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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.
-- Måns Rullgård mru@users.sf.net
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