[haiku] Re: Broadcom opened sources!

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:08:36 +0200

Le 10 sept. 2010 à 16:05, Stephan Assmus a écrit :

>> Now that we have a solid understanding on how to communicate to the
>> chip-sets a native driver can be written.  Understanding how the Broadcom
>> chips is only the first step though, now someone has to execute on it.
>> (cough axel, cough) ;)
> 
> So these drivers are for chipsets that we don't already support? Some 
> Broadcom chipses are already supported, I though. In any case rather than 
> waiting for Axel or someone else to work on native drivers, I'd just watch 
> the FreeBSD repo and notify someone when those guys have written a driver. 
> Because that one can most likely be used pretty much as-is. Let's spend our 
> time wisely.

Or better yet, someone write one for BSD and contribute it first, it'd be good 
PR for us ;)

François.

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