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> You can't design a driver for a card without knowing everything about the card Strongly disagree with that statement, though I sincerely wish it were true. M
by Sheepshow 13y ago
> You can't design a driver for a card without knowing everything about the card
Strongly disagree with that statement, though I sincerely wish it were true. My company manufactures hardware and does not provide a reference driver for any OS. We provide binary blobs and textual "guidelines".
For our hardware, driver authors operate without knowing any details beyond the interface.
- shdon 13y agoSo... they're actually not writing drivers for the hardware, but for the interface provided by your blob. I'm not sure I agree with the original statement, but I don't think your argument holds entirely.