From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 23:50:21 -0500 From: "Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Is IBM ThinkPad R60e notebook compatible with Plan9? In-Reply-To: <703fe72ca43b1cef18ccae0ec66798a0@oarsank.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <32a656c20705102057j503160cgf407f7b25d635229@mail.gmail.com> <703fe72ca43b1cef18ccae0ec66798a0@oarsank.ca> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 63fe86a0-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Fans: I am gonna write some broadcom drivers for the 4411 chipset. I am also looking forward to write some wireless drivers. Broadcom has some reasons not to release their specs... They made a bad marketing/engineering/client decission. Many of their chipsets are used by the US military. They then have "public" drivers for the masses and the ones with "military" functions. I know for sure that at least the USAF uses _a lot_ of broadcom chipsets on critical comm. I'd like to know about those of you that have a broadcom chipset... And if you would be willing to test my driver attempts... I think we really have to work on hardware support. There is another not_so_good OS around being a mainstream choice because of its _impressive_ hardware support... It is not about being a lot of users, but being able to use plan 9 (or inferno) everywhere we want. Cheers!