On Wed, 9 May 2007 11:35:03 +0200, Marcus Better wrote:
Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> Does that mean that the Debian ARM people have their heads so far
> up their collective asses that they think that every form of change
> is bad and are unable to accept that some forms of change might be
> for the better?
Well, I am not one of the Debian ARM people, just a user... and I do hope the
EABI port becomes supported in the future! But in the meatime there is a
crowd of users running Debian on consumer devices like the NSLU2, and they
need a LE network driver.
1) Development _should_ happen in small individually-manageable steps.
It's wrong to delay integration of the new IXP4xx eth driver just
because it's not yet LE-compatible.
True.
2) LE Debian/ARM users do have alternatives: they can use USB-Ethernet
adapters, for instance.
In case of Freecom FSG-3, that would be four USB-ethernet adapters. With
the cost roughly half of the cost of the whole device. And all USB-ports
occupied. Provided you don't use them for something else.
Someone could ask "why has this device four mice connected?" :) (for
someone who doesn't work much with computers, a USB-ISDN or USB-ethernet
adapter looks just like a mouse).
And yet another viable alternative is to use a totally different device
which is fully supported under Linux or another system, right? :)
--
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org
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