From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264108AbTKUADW (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 19:03:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264112AbTKUADW (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 19:03:22 -0500 Received: from [202.81.18.30] ([202.81.18.30]:29625 "EHLO gaston") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264108AbTKUADU (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 19:03:20 -0500 Subject: Re: Announce: ndiswrapper From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org To: jt@hpl.hp.com Cc: William Lee Irwin III , Jeff Garzik , Linux kernel mailing list In-Reply-To: <20031120172729.GC14608@bougret.hpl.hp.com> References: <20031120031137.GA8465@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <3FBC3483.4060706@pobox.com> <20031120040034.GF19856@holomorphy.com> <3FBC5036.3020503@pobox.com> <20031120052659.GF22764@holomorphy.com> <1069311243.5185.192.camel@gaston> <20031120172729.GC14608@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1069372639.876.39.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 10:57:19 +1100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 04:27, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 05:54:04PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > I know a lot of you don't care, but I hate in those discussions > > about binary drivers when what is for me the #1 issue isn't even > > mentioned: availability on non-x86 hardware ! > > That's why in the Howto the binary drivers are flagged > accordingly. I even add explicit PPC driver for drivers I know work on > PPC. What more do you need ? > I still don't understand why people buy the wrong > hardware. You have a choice, exercise it ! Except when Apple provides built-in Broadcom chipset in all new recent Macs... Ben.