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Still, why aren't there good drivers ? or why isn't a way for affordably buying/sharing drivers for such chips , as a way to solve that problem ?
by petra 10y ago
Still, why aren't there good drivers ? or why isn't a way for affordably buying/sharing drivers for such chips , as a way to solve that problem ?
- gcp 10y agoIf you've chosen a cheaper chip and paid an engineer to work through the crappy documentation to write a driver, why would you give this away? It just helps your competition. It may still make sense if the maintenance burden is high and upstreaming has benefits, but that's not always the case.
- petra 10y agoOK. So what about a third party developing and selling drivers ?
- azernik 10y agoBecause in my experience, hardware companies don't know how to write good software.