Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:16:07 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Intron <mag@intron.ac> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Improving FreeBSD's hardware compatibility Message-ID: <20060721071607.GA728@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <1153452255.82099@origin.intron.ac> References: <e6575a30607181811x3bedbeeajcaa5d1c0c6ef7293@mail.gmail.com> <20060720103228.GA716@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <1153397244.66653@origin.intron.ac> <20060720181216.GJ96589@funkthat.com> <1153452255.82099@origin.intron.ac>
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--xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2006-Jul-21 09:42:40 +0800, Intron wrote: >Oliver Fromme wrote: >>Yeah, most of which are crap. :-) The raw number of >>drivers says _nothing_ about hardware vendors' support. > >This is a problem of code quality. A driver that is effectively unusable is no better than no driver at all. The FreeBSD prefers to expend developer resources on providing a smaller number of drivers but have them actually work. >But at least Linux community has so many volunteers/vendors to write >drivers. quantity !=3D quality On Fri, 2006-Jul-21 11:18:07 +0800, Intron wrote: >3. Philips SAA 7130/7134, TV decoder > This is one of the most popular TV decoder chips on the market. >The data sheet can be obtained from the vendor, just as what Linux >community has done. You are wrong in two respects here. a) The publicly available datasheet does not provide programming details. The programming details are only available under NDA. b) FreeBSD _does_ have a driver for this chipset, available from download.purpe.com - which I am successfully using. > Although not all data sheets have been publicized by vendors, but >at least FreeBSDers can follow/keep up with Linux community, cannot we? Feel free to contribute. --=20 Peter Jeremy --xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEwH81/opHv/APuIcRAs8dAJ9xbVEZEKHVA3kVJNjItKjIF6KDmwCgwb19 lmJwDIvtoEIEbiIErxfHH9Q= =Ld5O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V--
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