> Almost all the hardware support on linux came from people in the linux space reverse engineering and developing those drivers which are then in a state that c

> Almost all the hardware support on linux came from people in the linux space reverse engineering and developing those drivers which are then in a state that can be upstreamed. Almost all sounds like exaggeration, Intel&AMD have done a lot, and even ARM vendors have contributed lot of drivers. See for example LWN author stats for employers, plenty of HW vendors there: https://lwn.net/Articles/902854/ https://lwn.net/Articles/902854/