Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:23:44 +0200 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: Exposing device ids and driver names |
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Nathaniel McCallum wrote: > On 10/01/2009 01:47 PM, Stefan Richter wrote: >> Nathaniel McCallum wrote: [...] >>> The second tool, related to the first, is a program which runs on >>> Windows and scans for a user's hardware and tells them which distro will >>> best support their hardware. [...] >> Hardware support also depends on userland: Udev rules, libraries, >> application programs. >> >> Even if you ignore that for now and only look at the kernel part of >> hardware support: Beyond "doesn't have a matching driver" and "does >> have", there is a large and impossible to track grey area of "has a >> poorly working driver" and "has a perfectly working driver".
There are even more factors for how well something works or even whether it works at all: It may even depend on combinations of two pieces of hardware, e.g. bus adapter and device on that bus. It may depend on device firmware revisions.
> Yes, I'm aware of this and will account for it as best as I am able. [...] > you are correct that we cannot predict 100% of user > experience. But 70% is a huge improvement over 0%.
So, this 2nd tool can't literally say which distribution supports a device best. It can mostly just list which distributions contain a matching kernel driver. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--= =-=- ----= http://arcgraph.de/sr/
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