Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:39:46 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Free Linux Driver Development! |
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On Jan 30 2007 21:23, Diego Calleja wrote: > >Sure, Linux doesn't support vax and the like, but it does support lots of >architectures that matter. In http://netbsd.org/Ports/#ports-by-cpu >there's a more Linux-like view of the architectures supported. Although >Netbsd people will argue that porting a architecture to Linux is more >difficult and that Linux gets support just because there's a lot of $$$ >around it.
A real one time argument. There's much more $ around Windows and yet, there are (I presume) almost only drivers for x86 (and slowly coming, x86_64). IA64? Well, you probably don't run desktop peripherals there, but vendors don't have a driver at hand easily.
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