It's the drivers silly [LWN.net]

It's the drivers silly

Posted Oct 13, 2005 16:14 UTC (Thu) by martinfick (subscriber, #4455)
Parent article: How many is too many?

While support for common distributions would be nice, what hardware makers
should be providing is the drivers. First get the drivers out there so
that the distributions can package them for you if they want them. Then
if you think that they are not doing a good enough job of it, either work
with them and/or become a debian/... developer and package them
yourselves. Lastly, once these other things are done, providing
preinstalled linux would be greatly welcomed.

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It's the drivers silly

Posted Oct 14, 2005 18:34 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

Drivers are nice frosting on the cake, but what we really need is specs of the hardware and technical support at a hardware level (i.e. they can handle the complaint, "I wrote 0x10 to the command register, but I never got an interrupt," as opposed to, "I clicked on 'power saving mode' and I got an hourglass."

That's a lot more flexible than a driver.