From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Felix Oxley <lkml@oxley.org>
Cc: Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@intel.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
Jon Masters <jonmasters@gmail.com>,
Grahame White <grahame@regress.homelinux.org>,
Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>,
"Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>,
"linux-os ((Dick Johnson))" <linux-os@analogic.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Dirk Steuwer <dirk@steuwer.de>,
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Subject: Re: Linux Hardware Quality Labs (was: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario)
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 10:51:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051208105128.GK27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6A700AF6-1E1B-49A7-A565-336700882097@oxley.org>
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 10:26:53AM +0000, Felix Oxley wrote:
> I presume that drivers will be developed alongside the hardware
> because you can't sell the kit until the drivers are on the CD in the
> nice box with the instruction manual.
> Also you can't test the hardware properly unless you have drivers for
> it.
No. Any external reviewer will be immediately put in a nasty position
of standing in the way of vendor's schedule. That's _the_ recipe for
mess. And that's besides the joy of NDA, etc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-08 10:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-07 23:53 Linux Hardware Quality Labs (was: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario) Felix Oxley
2005-12-08 7:43 ` Nicolas Mailhot
2005-12-08 8:53 ` Vadim Lobanov
2005-12-08 9:23 ` Dirk Steuwer
2005-12-08 9:57 ` Chris White
2005-12-08 10:54 ` Dirk Steuwer
2005-12-09 1:48 ` Felix Oxley
2005-12-08 10:26 ` Felix Oxley
2005-12-08 10:46 ` Dirk Steuwer
2005-12-08 11:12 ` Felix Oxley
2005-12-08 10:51 ` Al Viro [this message]
2005-12-08 14:15 ` Dirk Steuwer
[not found] ` <20051208153930.GB12808@kvack.org>
2005-12-09 1:09 ` Felix Oxley
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