> I mean it as a driver developer. Its trivial to do things that are difficult or impossible anywhere else. What is a "driver developer"? What's your end goal

> I mean it as a driver developer. Its trivial to do things that are difficult or impossible anywhere else. What is a "driver developer"? What's your end goal here - to enable the hardware on a particular OS, or do you have the added constraint of wanting to maintain control of your "driver" by keeping it proprietary, and so you have the additional requirement of a pluggable architecture instead of just contributing to the upstream Linux kernel? In other words, do the obstacles you claim exist only exist because you are trying to write non-free drivers?