[haiku] Re: Broadcom opened sources!

  • From: "Stephan Assmus" <superstippi@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:14:34 +0200

Hi,

Von: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
> 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 ;)

That's certainly true. :-) It would be very honourable! But I will be *very* 
surprised when that happens. ;-)

Best regards,
-Stephan

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