Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751433AbXA3Ukf (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:40:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751410AbXA3Ukf (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:40:35 -0500 Received: from tmailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.23]:58627 "EHLO tmailer.gwdg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751433AbXA3Uke (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:40:34 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:39:46 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Diego Calleja cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development! In-Reply-To: <20070130212334.2a042fdf.diegocg@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <20070130012904.GA9617@kroah.com> <20070130191405.GI20642@kroah.com> <20070130212334.2a042fdf.diegocg@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 936 Lines: 24 On Jan 30 2007 21:23, Diego Calleja wrote: > >Sure, Linux doesn't support vax and the like, but it does support lots of >architectures that matter. In http://netbsd.org/Ports/#ports-by-cpu >there's a more Linux-like view of the architectures supported. Although >Netbsd people will argue that porting a architecture to Linux is more >difficult and that Linux gets support just because there's a lot of $$$ >around it. A real one time argument. There's much more $ around Windows and yet, there are (I presume) almost only drivers for x86 (and slowly coming, x86_64). IA64? Well, you probably don't run desktop peripherals there, but vendors don't have a driver at hand easily. Jan -- - 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/