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From: Philippe Anel <xigh@free.fr>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Broadcom drivers, yet again
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:32:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <471C522B.3040105@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6e35c0620710210851k3102c3d2yd13cf671b652e854@mail.gmail.com>

Therefore, please Jack, feel free to write this driver.

I agree with Erik, writing a driver without the full documentation is a 
real pain.
And source files are not documentation, because it takes too much time to
read and understand how the hardware has been designed.

Yes, Brad Smith did it ... and he did a great thing, but the question is how
worth it is to do the same boring work when you can buy a fully documented
and working hardware for less than $40 ?

my 2 cents,

Phil;


Jack Johnson a écrit :
> On 10/21/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>   
>> not enough for a product.
>>     
>
> This is interesting.  Brad Smith's story about halfway down:
>
> http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2006/10/26/openbsd-40.html
>
> -Jack
>
>
>   


  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-22  7:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-21 12:33 Pietro Gagliardi
2007-10-21 12:44 ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-21 13:34   ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-10-21 13:55     ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-21 14:03   ` Steve Simon
2007-10-21 14:06     ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-21 14:24       ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-10-21 14:30         ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-21 14:35           ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-10-21 15:51       ` Jack Johnson
2007-10-22  7:32         ` Philippe Anel [this message]
2007-10-22 14:10           ` Jack Johnson
2007-10-22 14:23             ` ron minnich
2007-10-22 14:45               ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-22 14:41             ` Philippe Anel
2007-10-22 14:59               ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-22 15:04                 ` Philippe Anel
2007-10-24 10:41                 ` Richard Miller
2007-10-24 12:32                   ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-24 13:27                     ` Philippe Anel
2007-10-26  8:34                     ` Richard Miller

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