[openbeos] hardware scanner

  • From: Karl vom Dorff <karl@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 02:19:14 -0400

After an initial install of Haiku, there may be hardware that isn't supported, but is supported, however Haiku can't include the supporting drivers because of license issues.


Say for instance a bt838 analog tv tuner driver that supports a huge number of tv cards.

Is it possible to build up a database of such drivers available for BeOS and have a hardware scanner suggest where/how to get the support after the installation?

That would be computing simplified, instead of leaving it up to the user to hunt down drivers; kind of like Windows update..

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