Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 08:31:01PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> On Jan 30 2007 11:14, Greg KH wrote:
> >On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 11:52:48AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> >This driver will work with all[1] of the different
> >> >CPU types supported by Linux, the largest number of CPU types supported
> >> >by any operating system ever before in the history of computing.
> >> 
> >> (How many do we support? How many does NetBSD?)
> >
> >We support at least 25 separate architectures, with a _huge_ variety of
> >different variations within those architectures.  We passed NetBSD a
> >number of years ago (sorry, don't have their numbers around right now.)
> 
> Don't they claim 50+? Already browsing 
> ftp://ftp.de.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-3.1 gives more than 2 
> screenfuls [?? 25].

Don't get confused by the fact that the majority of the NetBSD platforms
are sub-architectures.  I'm talking about 25 unique CPU architectures.
Or is it 20.  I haven't looked in a while, the tree is there for anyone
else to look at :)

And even then, I think just the pure number of variants of ARM and PPC
that we support is greater than NetBSD's sub-arch support too...

thanks,

greg k-h
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