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Know Any Hardware Needing Better Linux Support?

Posted by kdawson on from the problem-you-don't-see-every-day dept.

Dev Null writes "The Linux device driver project has hit something of a snag: they have lots of developers, but few devices to work on, so they're looking for input concerning which devices aren't well-supported in Linux. If any of you know of devices that could use better support, you can help out by listing them on the project's wiki."

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  1. Wireless by OverflowingBitBucket · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Wireless.

    The current driver space for wireless components in Linux is an odd hodge-podge of ndiswrapper, madwifi (two versions), beta drivers external to the mainline kernel, minimal built-in support and blind luck. Cleaning this up should keep a good number of people very busy.

  2. Re:Stabilize the API by thue · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I won't bother submitting this driver to the free driver project because it's kind of useless without the $3000 piece of hardware it works with (and that's not counting the crates full of minicomputer hardware needed for testing). I need mine and I don't picture these folks buying their own no matter how much they care.

    I seem to recall that one of the main kernel developers said they accept any drivers, and had a driver in the kernel with only a single known user. So it seems to me that they would accept your driver, since you seem to have many users.

    If you get your driver in the kernel then I assume the developers who change the interfaces would update your code automatically.