On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 15:35, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >>Which is why it would help to be IBM or one of the other big players. > >>Does it look like I'm shitting hardware? ;-) > > > > > > That has nothing to do with big players at all. > > Are you saying I have more money than IBM? I would certainly hope not ;-)
"big players" don't bother with board support for X Y or Z, most of that kind of stuff is volunteer work in linux. AmigaOne could have fairly decent and maintained support by just providing a board and eventually some techs infos to an interested kernel hacker. Paying him would be even better but I'm sure some would do the work just for a board or 2 ;) > Seriously, I think Eyetech and MAI are being complete assholes on this > one, but I would like to add that it would have been really cool if > someone from the outside had half a chance in heck of figuring all of > this out and actually get there in time to have a patch for something > that is semi-current. > > Every time I manage to make something that looks like a patch for some > version of Linux that version is obsoleted by something that breaks > whatever I did. I may not be the smartest guy around, but at least I'm > man enough to face the fact. I am not the right person to ask this of :-) > > I guess more manpower is the only way to go. Anyway, I have done a bit > of work on two of the 4 or 5 (can't remember, it's been HOURS already > :-) ) points I wrote down earlier, possibly enough to have it ready in > less than 5 minutes (amiga-fdisk and kernel-package). The rest of the > points are somewhat more work, but I'm going to contribute if there's > more than me out there. At least it is a START, right? :-) > > But I guess the number of people with AmigaOnes who actually bothered to > subscribe here is pretty low, even if I did hint a few _thousand_ times > elsewhere that this was a good list for debian and powerpc related > questions. > > -- > AmigaOne dev list FAQ (when I say F, I mean F): > http://www.samfundet.no/~olegil/amiga/ -- Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>