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Message-ID: <45BFC99A.8040805@garzik.org> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:41:30 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> To: Trent Waddington <trent.waddington@...il.com> CC: Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development! 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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