From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Ball References: <20110304233219.GB28060@kroah.com> Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:51:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20110304233219.GB28060@kroah.com> (Greg KH's message of "Fri, 4 Mar 2011 15:32:19 -0800") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Obtaining hardware for writing Linux drivers? List-Id: public TAB mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Greg KH Cc: tech-board-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org Hi Greg, thanks for the reply, On Fri, Mar 04 2011, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 04:23:31PM -0500, Chris Ball wrote: >> In the case of this particular device, I was pointed at Bdale Garbee by >> people on IRC (but wouldn't have known to e-mail him myself) and will >> see if I can get him to help. But, even assuming he can help me, that >> still doesn't solve the problem in the general case. Any ideas? > > I'd be glad to step up and work on accomplishing this. But, supposing I > am successful in getting these contacts and keeping them up to date, how > would you recommend that we publicize this type of functionality that we > could now provide? A strawman proposal might look like: * A mail to lkml announcing the program * LWN article doing the same * A mail to LF company members asking them to nominate a contact person and encouraging them to take part, explaining how they'll benefit from people who *already* want to write drivers for them for free and just can't get the hardware they need to do so. Once a decent mass of kernel hackers know about it, I'm sure it'll spread by word of mouth to reach everyone else who needs to know; I don't think there'll be a problem with disseminating the program once the first batch of hackers knows about it. Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child