Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

Jeff Garzik
2005-12-06T19:21:11Z

Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> I think Linus is doing the right thing here, and he is avoiding what I
> described in the previous email: that is breaking drivers gratuitously
> is what could make linux hostile and too costly to support IMHO. We want
> to be parnters with all hardware companies, but we want them to support
> linux properly (not with binary only drivers), in a way that we can fix
> it, port it to other archs, and so that we don't lose support for the
> hardware while improving internal APIs.

Agreed.

Jeff