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
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