On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 07:05:06PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > 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.
Of course it is a limited number. There is a finite number of people on the planet. That is a potentially large number I will admit, but still limited. > 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. I certainly find it facinating what people are managing to do. > 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? I certainly thinkg that's true. -- Len Sorensen -- 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/20130426183119.gk21...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
