Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263411AbTEMU1S (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 16:27:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263397AbTEMU1P (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 16:27:15 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:51905 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263415AbTEMU0t (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 16:26:49 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: mru@users.sourceforge.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Subject: Re: What exactly does "supports Linux" mean? Date: 13 May 2003 22:36:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200305131114_MC3-1-38B0-3C13@compuserve.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Portable Code) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1012 Lines: 19 Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> writes: > > My general conclusion would be that something not working with a standard > > kernel cannot be called "supporting linux", no matter what distros ever are > > supported. You may call me purist... > > If their drivers don't come with full source code then their claims > of supporting Linux are just a bad joke AFAIC. Even when they do, it's often far from what I would call "Linux support". I've seen vendor drivers that made such assumptions about the machine that they would only work on IA-32 machines. I'm talking about things like assuming that sizof(int) == sizeof(void *) == 4, or that physical memory addresses are the same seen from the CPU and from the PCI bus. -- M?ns Rullg?rd mru@users.sf.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/