On 16 Jun 2010, at 12:41, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Mike Rapoport wrote: >>> Which of course raises the question: How does the Linux community view >>> such SoC vendors? Are they embraced and eagerly supported, or (either >>> openly or secretly) viewed as a nuisance? How does the widespread >>> objection to something that such vendors "would make extensive use of" >>> mesh with that view? >> >> I cannot tell for the entire Linux community, but from what I know, such >> vendors are not much welcomed in the community. > > As far as I can tell, many such vendors don't have much interest in > contributing to the Linux community either. They use Linux code, glue > in their black-box binary modules and/or HALs, and engage poorly with > the community. It is not just end-product makers, but upstream > component, board and SDK manufacturers too.
That is what we are trying to change [1]. > -- Jamie Regards, Jamie. [1] http://www.linaro.org _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev