[openbeos] Re: Driver support...

> We will try to rewrite the ones that are still commonly needed
> and extend them to support the latest hardware - examples for
> this are not only IDE, but also graphics drivers, USB,
> FireWire, networking drivers, sound drivers etc.
> As you can see in the repository, there are already some of
> them.

as I said to Michael privately, when OBOS will be beta it should 
be good to "convince" some developers to help and join the 
project with their drivers,
I'm talking about people who published their works on BeBits.com 
(e.g: the Realtek 8139, some ATI stuff, an Epson Stylus Color 
driver, etc.),
by doing so we would increase the number of developers into OBOS 
and a lot of work would be immediately done (on the other hand, 
as far as I understood, it should not be too difficult for them 
to port their work from BeOS to OBOS, right?),

thanks :)

p.s.: sorry for the silly question, but: is a driver *completely* 
frontend independent? does writing an OBOS driver (for, let's 
say, a camera) require to know in advance which program will be 
used (BeCamera or another)?

Marco Zanon [http://www.marcozanon.com]

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