On Sun, 19 Jun 2016, Daniel Curran-Dickinson wrote:
On Wed, 2016-06-15 at 19:52 -0700, David Lang wrote:
Is there a list of hardware that is needed? (or do you want donations of money
for the project to buy hardware)?
TBH I'm not sure how useful random hardware donations are. For example
getting a router which is more than just updating image generation
specifics (and assuming there is even enough information available via
flash browsing etc to do that, which isn't always the case), there is
the problem most chips manufacturers don't talk to random developer X,
and only want to give data sheets and programming information to people
who sign an NDA and have a support contract, presumably with contracts
to by X units from ODM who is actually the one making the information
available, or enabling the request).
Dealing with unsupported hardware is not something developers can often
do something about simply by having random device X. If it's just image
generation usually it can be figured out, but beyond that it normally
requires some level of information that isn't easy to discover simply by
having a device.
Well, I'll point out that the thread I'm replying to started off with "I no
longer have the hardware to test this"
I agree that random, unsolicited donations are likely to be less useful, but
donations of hardware to solve the "I can't test this" or add to a test farm are
directly useful.
And getting a new piece of equipment can get a developer interested enough to go
after the NDAs needed to make it work well.
In some cases the vendors involved are known to 'not play well with others' and
so donations of their hardware will do no good.
But those of us out in the wild can't tell the difference between the different
categories.
That's why I asked for a list of what would be useful to donate :-)
David Lang
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