Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:12:16 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Intron <mag@intron.ac> Cc: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, "Charles A. Landemaine" <landemaine@gmail.com>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Improving FreeBSD's hardware compatibility Message-ID: <20060720181216.GJ96589@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <1153397244.66653@origin.intron.ac> References: <e6575a30607181811x3bedbeeajcaa5d1c0c6ef7293@mail.gmail.com> <20060720103228.GA716@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <1153397244.66653@origin.intron.ac>
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Intron wrote this message on Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 19:25 +0800:
> On the other hand, so many hardware vendors (especially some small
> enterprises, which are eager to obtain software support)
> have publicized data sheets of their integrated circuit products,
> but so few people would write hardware driver for FreeBSD.
I haven't seen this. The only case that I can think of is due to
developers not having the hardware, or a need to use said hardware,
so nothing happens...
Do you have a list of hardware that has documntation available that
needs device drivers to be written?
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