Linux device driver project needs more unsupported devices to work on?

[Dazed_75]

Don't shoot the messenger, but see below:

On 10/28/07, Chris Gehlker <canyonrat at mac.com> wrote:
> On Oct 28, 2007, at 10:56 AM, Dazed_75 wrote:
>
> > Thats why I don't quite understand the "lack of work to give them"
> > statement.  OTOH, existing driver support is hugely better than it was
> > a few years ago so I can easily see that as part of the reason.  Sure
> > is good to see the project thriving though.
>
> The  article is very confusing. ATI and Nvidia are not  "two video
> cards". I guess they are 'most' video cards. And does 'the device is

So his grammar is not correct.  Blogs (where that came from
originally) are full of mis-statements due to bad grammar.  It seems
to be a growing trend unfortunately.  OTOH, I think you can read what
he says in the way that you say is correct.  Especially in a case like
nvidia where they tend to make drivers that support all there products
(can we all spell "bloat"?).  In any case, that seems like a nit to
me.

> supported' mean that the default Ubuntu install will auto-detect it
> and do the right thing or does it mean that there is source code out
> there somewhere for those who know how  to compile and install it? it
> strikes me that there might be a long way between the driver project
> and and the common distros.

Agreed.  On the other hand, if you go back to their foundations, the
project is aimed at enusring that drivers for hardware EXIST for
Linux, not that the drivers are FOSS or incorporated into distros.
Sure, that may be an end goal even in that project, but it is not the
priority 1 goal.

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