On 7/28/2010 1:54 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
On 07/27/2010 05:58 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
It would also be nice if the manufacturers would release better
information on the devices themselves. Much of the time spent in FOSS
driver development is reverse engineering drivers for Windows because
of a lack of adequate information--and sometimes bits get left out or
don't work well because of it.
A few years back, Texas Instruments created a wireless NIC that a number
of PCMCIA and USB dongles used (mostly from D-Link). We ended up with
hack very similar to nVidia kmods that'd use a binary blob from Windows
for the guts of the driver.
The reason that manufacturers of hardware *that they sell* do not
release really good specs and FOSS drivers should be obvious. :-)
--
David