On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 09:24:25PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>
> David S. Miller writes:
>
> > It's amusing how so many companies want to have that Linux checkbox,
> > and the extremes they'll go to in order to retain binary only drivers
> > at the same time.
>
> We ought to admit to not having solved this problem:
>
> 1. User has Linux installed today.
> 2. New hardware is designed, marketed, built, and sold.
> 3. User buys new hardware and installs it.
> 4. Hardware is a numb chunk of PC board, chips, and connectors.
>
> With the Windows OS, a user could install binary drivers from
> a CD-ROM included with the hardware. Linux does not currently
> play well with hardware upgrades, unless you know how to download
> and compile a recent kernel.
No. The CD comes with on .c file and one Makefile and you type make; make install.
Many network-cards have this (here in Germany).
> Hardware vendors can not expect users to know about compiling.
> It would be very dangerous to have hardware vendors supplying
> whole kernel upgrades, but what else can they do?
The can say the user to type 'su -c "make all install".
Christoph
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