Jesse Keating wrote:
On Thursday 10 August 2006 10:04, Tim Burke wrote:
Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, AMD, Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC, etc... they all send
us hardware and proposed patches. Further, we encourage these partners
to be proactively doing testing on Fedora so that things are well
prepared for RHEL releases.
- RH also works with many companies to help coach and mentor them to the
merits of open source development. We help guide them through the
process of the upstream development model.
Examples?
Broadcom on their network driver. Promise on SATA/SAS. Intel on network
driver work. We have been spending a lot of time collectively between
IBM/RH and Adaptec on their most recent raid adapter drivers. The
Adaptec case is a good example. They saw the light after having the pain
of not being mainstreamed. We have been working with them over the past
6 months to mentor them to get the driver prepared for upstream
incorporation.
How much of this is directly because of RHEL though?
Probably the large majority of it .
If Fedora was TRULY its
own project, and the stigma of it being a RHEL Alpha was lost, would these
hardware vendors be as proactive in sending the project hardware?
Or would
they continue to send RED HAT hardware and RED HAT would have to then divvy
it out to the Fedora Project.
Having a vendor backing the distribution is useful in many occasions and
as long as Red Hat is willing to put its efforts into Fedora, we can
push other vendors to be responsive and that doesnt require any
particular tie up between the product lines.
Would we be able to get hardware into the
hands of non Red Hat employees, folks out in the community who have the
ability (and time) to make the latest wizbang hardware from WidgetCo work
with Fedora / the Kernel?
Yes. This is really where can and should do better. Red Hat acting as
the middle man would not work in all situations especially when there is
no commercial interest in some devices or line of hardware.
Rahul
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