Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 30th Jan 2007 16:53 UTC, submitted by SEJeff
"Yes, that's right, the Linux kernel community is offering all companies free Linux driver development. No longer do you have to suffer through all of the different examples in the Linux Device Driver Kit, or pick through the thousands of example drivers in the Linux kernel source tree trying to determine which one is the closest to what you need to do. All that is needed is some kind of specification that describes how your device works, or the email address of an engineer that is willing to answer questions every once in a while. A few sample devices might be good to have so that debugging doesn't have to be done by email, but if necessary, that can be done."
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On the other hand, I don't believe nVidia/ATi is the target audience of this offer. These vendors have the resources to continue to wrestle with providing binary drivers for a moving target, and they might be fine with continuing this development model.
They also need to face up to the fact that the community has the resources to reverse engineer heavily demanded drivers within a reasonable time frame, even without their cooperation. The Nouveau project is projecting a stable 3D nVidia driver before the end of the year, and the early progress suggests it might be even earlier (and with possible performance advantages over the proprietary driver). If they don't cooperate, we'll eventually go over their heads and make it happen anyway.