> On 8/29/06, Curtis Wanner <katisu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > They have also been very uncooperative with releasing specs to open > > source > > projects. A driver will require information from reverse > > engineering and > > would be suspect at best. > > Being that the norm and not the exception, I'm afraid that for the > time being (that means: until R3+) some sort of NDIS wrapper would be > much more beneficial to Haiku than spending developer resources on > reverse-engineering or clean-room rewriting drivers based on > documentation derived from GPL'd source or whatnot. > > FWIW, that's just what yT did. And in my opinion writing an one-shot > wrapper which would enable one to tap into the ENORMOUS driver > library > available for Windows was a brilliant decision. Native drivers may > then come as resources allow. Except that ethically it's really not a good option. It makes it possible to use hardware without OSS driver/open specs. So it is one less incentive to hardware makers not to open their specs. "why do you want the specs ? you can use it already can't you ?" But from a user point of view it effectively is the best solution in the short term. François.