Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Trent Waddington wrote:
> All this sounds like a lack of organisation on the side of the
> community to me.  Greg saying that he and others are twiddling their
> thumbs because they don't know what hardware needs drivers says that
> too.  Where is the list of hardware-without-drivers?  Until recently
> there hasn't even been a list of hardware-with-binary-only-drivers
> [1].  So anyone who has the necessary skills and thinks gee, I might
> have a go at writing a linux kernel driver, has no idea where to go or
> what to do.  I wonder how many vendors have a policy of just ignoring
> emails from hackers asking for specifications because they have
> already given the specifications to Redhat or someone else, but
> hackers just keep asking them again and again.


I think this is a quite fair criticism, and I would love to see someone 
step up and help with this sort of organization.

For example, I didn't know that XGI graphics specs were available at 
all, otherwise it might have been something fun to tackle.

	Jeff

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