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. :-)