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From: Philippe Anel <xigh@free.fr>
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Therefore, please Jack, feel free to write this driver.

I agree with Erik, writing a driver without the full documentation is a=20
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 documente=
d
and working hardware for less than $40 ?

my 2 cents,

Phil;


Jack Johnson a =E9crit :
> On 10/21/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>  =20
>> not enough for a product.
>>    =20
>
> This is interesting.  Brad Smith's story about halfway down:
>
> http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2006/10/26/openbsd-40.html
>
> -Jack
>
>
>  =20