Alan Cox wrote:
>They have problems as it is. The VIA people for instance released
binary
>drivers for their Mini-ITX's CastleRock video chip. In doing so, they
>targetted RH 9, which meant kernel 2.4.20-8. What they didn't understand
>is that RH will release new kernels (and are at 2.4.20-20-9) during the
To be fair VIA *do* understand this. They are working to get stuff supported
in open source but released binary drivers in the mean time.
The point is, people who do binary drivers will be cursed by platform
movement, not only with relatively new products (RH9, RHE, etc.) but
also older products (7.1, 8), as there's legacy support, whenever a
kernel is released for the given platform. They undertake similar risks
with Fedora as they will with RHE in the future.
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