--- Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > :Is there an official binary driver policy for > DragonFly? I understand > :people want the fast GUI and stuff to work, > but giving in to the crap > :that companies push on the open source > community isn't acceptable in > :my opinion. Its just going to ultimately > prolong the problem and > :diminish the efforts of people trying to get > companies to open up > :their drivers. > : > :Personally, I would say its good if you don't > support the likes of nvidia. > : > :-Kevin > > I am not particularly interested in > supporting binary only drivers > considering past experience where the > vendors have supplied them, but > then not bothered to keep them up to date > or fix bugs or support > new versions of the OS. NVidia has been > especially anti-social in > this regard. If we want anything that > 'lasts', it has to be native. So you're pledging to rigorously support the 45 (or however many there are) ethernet drivers you inherited from freebsd, plus all new controllers that come out? Have you fixed all of the bugs in the bge driver yet? I see you don't support the intel 82563EB controller on the Woodcrest compatible MB I was looking at. When can I expect to see that? Will I have to donate a board to you to get someone to do/test the driver for it? I'm being a devil's advocate here, but your stance is ridiculous, considering that you don't have the financial resources nor the manpower to support drivers properly yourself. The truth is that only a small handful of drivers have ever been any good in any open source OS; the ones that the one or two guys with the talent to support them use themselves. You used to have to beat David Greenman over the head to add support for intel's latest fxp part, because he was off on some other project and he didn't have the time. Not that any vendor is going to bother doing a driver for DFLY with its pidly user base, but the argument is just silly. The windows model works; the trick is getting enough users for the vendors to care. DT __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
