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Can he really promise all CPUs?Can he really promise all CPUs?Posted Jan 30, 2007 22:14 UTC (Tue) by hazelsct (subscriber, #3659)Parent article: Free Linux driver development offered
Promising that a driver will work on all CPU architectures is easier said than done. For example, I recall Daniel Jacobowitz' work on the Debian PPC stock kernel a few years ago, where he painstakingly enabled options one by one and recompiled to determine which would even *compile*, let alone run correctly. And PPC is a relatively popular architecture among Linux users, much more than e.g. PA-RISC, S-390 or SuperH.
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Can he really promise all CPUs? Posted Jan 31, 2007 0:29 UTC (Wed) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] Things have improved a lot since Linux started using git. Besides, making one driver compile for all architectures is not that hard. The hard part is making all (or many) drivers compile for a given CPU.
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