Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 06 Dec 2005 14:20:49 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario |
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Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > I think Linus is doing the right thing here, and he is avoiding what I > described in the previous email: that is breaking drivers gratuitously > is what could make linux hostile and too costly to support IMHO. We want > to be parnters with all hardware companies, but we want them to support > linux properly (not with binary only drivers), in a way that we can fix > it, port it to other archs, and so that we don't lose support for the > hardware while improving internal APIs.
Agreed.
Jeff
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