On 10/5/10 7:31 AM, Carmel wrote:
I realize that at this point someone will inevitably chime in and play
the "blame the manufacturers" whine. If that were factually correct,
then no one else would be able to supply drivers and support for
hardware that FreeBSD has left orphaned.
I'm somewhat unclear on how that follows. Might it not be that many
manufacturers, busily dealing with Microsoft, and easing into Linux now
that it has significant "mindshare," have simply decided that there's no
economic benefit to releasing detailed hardware specs in a form that
works for FreeBSD developers? I really fail to see why you think the
fact that the manufacturer itself has released binary drivers for
Windows, and possibly Linux, and/or released hardware specs under NDA
(non-disclosure agreement) to certain business partners, has any bearing
on whether sufficient information to write a driver is available to any
FreeBSD programmer with permission to use it to write an open source driver.
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--Jon Radel
j...@radel.com
