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Update On Free Linux Driver Development

Posted by kdawson on from the i'll-have-one-with-sprinkles dept.

Remember the offer Greg Kroah-Hartman made earlier this year, to get Linux drivers written for free for any company that wanted them? Now an anonymous reader points us to an article up on linuxworld with an update to this program. Greg K-H, who leads the development of several kernel subsystems including USB and PCI, admits that the January offer was a bit of "marketing hype" — but says it has brought companies and developers together anyway. Twelve companies have said "yes please," one driver is already in the kernel, and five more are in the pipeline.

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  1. List? by Constantine+XVI · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A list of the twelve companies, please?

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  2. Re:Why... by QuantumG · · Score: 5, Interesting

    1. They're loadable modules.
    2. You should maybe leave the kernel development to the kernel developers.

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  3. Re:patents, usability by QuantumG · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wasn't able to get a printer working under Windows XP 64 bit Edition for about 9 months. Only last week did I figure out how to force windows not to try to use the drivers from the print server (which is 32 bit XP) and to stop it from overwriting the 64 bit drivers with the 32 bit ones. I guarentee it is because the date-time stamps on the drivers were out of wack.. in 3 weeks time they'll probably magically stop working again.

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