On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Riku Voipio <riku.voi...@iki.fi> wrote:
> Anyways, rather than push for more reverse engineering projects to get > started, I think we should concentrate in finishing the current projects. that assumes that there is a limited number of individuals in the world with reverse-engineering skills: there isn't. i didn't have reverse-engineering skills, but that didn't stop me from trying. three years later i had full NT Domains interoperability built into samba, including management of /etc/init.d scripts via the standard nt gui management tools. i didn't have ARM hardware reverse-engineering skills, but that didn't stop me from trying. nine wince smartphones later i'd got 98% of drivers done on the 9th phone (the ipaq hw6915) in about six weeks flat. additionally, the guy who started the etnaviv project simply... loved the way that libv was working on it, and was inspired to just... get on with it. due to the simplicity of the vivante hardware he's *overtaken* what libv has achieved, in a very short amount of time, and has a *functional* but completely non-optimised gallium3d llvm driver that's *faster* than vivante's own proprietary code. so.... yeah. talking it down just makes people give up. that's not good: we need people who *don't* know that it's "difficult". i didn't know that MSRPC reverse-engineering was "difficult", which is why i started doing it... and once started and having worked with paul to get the "welcome to the samba domain" announcement, i sure as s**t wasn't going to stop. does that sound like a reasonable thing to do, riku - to assume that there are people with more skills, enthusiasm and time than we have? l. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAPweEDwbhEPi6NvB=z8wbaehwkpjvemhg_jcsorjohtwpk4...@mail.gmail.com
