On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:35:22 +0100, Hanno Böck wrote: > Hi, > > A while ago, I watched a video that was talking about driver > development and hardware vendors by a guy from Intel. I'm pretty sure > it was on some xorg- conference or somethink alike. > > It had a title like "how to make hardware vendors happy" or something > similar, but I don't remember exactly. It was about the problems that > arise when hardware vendors want to have free software drivers, one > example was the mentioning of moving features to a wlan card firmware > in order to be able to create a driver that complies with state > regulation. > > Does anyone remember that video and can give me a link?
Dirk Hohndel's 2008 linux.conf.au talk perhaps? "Make hardware vendors love open source" http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux.conf.au/2008/Wed/mel8-094.ogg Andrew _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
