Let me respond below.. On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 1:42 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Mike Mohr wrote: >> >> Please don't misunderstand the following comments. > > English _is_ my second language but I will do my best to not misunderstand > the following comments. I hope you do the same.
aye, will do. >> >> I am not >> disparaging the great work done by the bcm43xx team, but the fact is >> that a reverse engineered driver will never be as good as a driver for >> which the original source code or specs are released by the >> manufacturer. > > That is not a fact. That's an unproven assertion. this is a fact as opposed to an assertion, at least in general. When the OEM releases information about how a specific piece of hardware works, that information will be more accurate than clean-room reverse-engineered specifications in almost every situation. It may just be a subtle difference, but that may make or break the performance. YMMV. >> >> As a result, >> support for their chips in Linux is just superb; > > Whatever subjective phrase "support...is...just superb" there's no such > causality. That means, to use smaller words, that there's no indication > that the "superb support" is BECAUSE they released open-source drivers. I'm > sure that is a factor, but it's not a CAUSE. Again I'd disagree. The good folks over at rt2x00.serialmonkey.com have spent a vast amount of time cleaning up the Ralink drivers for inclusion in the vanilla kernel. Without the vendor support it is almost certain that there would be no F/OSS driver available for this hardware. Thus the excellent open-source hardware support for their cards is a direct result (aka a "cause") of their source code releases. >> >> If you want a card that will work >> perfectly in all situations, go with a card that has a Ralink chipset. >> > > If I wanted a commercial or spam I'd join another list. I don't view my comments as commercials or spam. Notice that I carefully avoided mentioning any specific manufacturer or device by name. Ralink only produces the chipsets; the consumer cards that contains these chips are manufactured by e.g. Hawking Technologies. Nowhere in my original mail did I mention a device vendor by name. > > Ehud > > Mike P.S. MB -- thanks for your support :) _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
