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IMHO every fringe OS community should invest effort into developing good full-fledged drivers for at least one reference hardware configuration. I wouldn't mind
by qwerty456127 5y ago
IMHO every fringe OS community should invest effort into developing good full-fledged drivers for at least one reference hardware configuration. I wouldn't mind buying a specific video card, a specific motherboard etc even if they were rather old and overpriced in case if Haiku had stable hardware-accelerated drivers supporting all their features.
Given open-source Linux drivers which can give a good clue about how to interact with specific hardware this task doesn't seem impossible.
- remix2000 5y agoOT/ I hardly ever see “fringe OS’s” port Linux drivers, but a lot of them do port drivers from NetBSD. I wonder why?
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- qwerty456127 5y agoThat's explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28218619 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28218619 NetBSD drivers are particularly convenient to port, also because of the license. I don't think it is reasonably easy to port Linux drivers but they can be a good source of inspiration and hints when engineering drivers of your own.