On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Dan Williams wrote: > > Does Intel need to make iwlwifi and ipw2x00 work reliably on platforms > other than x86? Or don't they? Why should they? If somebody else takes over maintenance, because Intel does a bad job, that's fine. If somebody else sends in patches and they get accepted "around" Intel, that's obviously also fine. But complaining about a vendor who does a good job technically, for non-technical reasons, I really don't see that as being fine. Is it even physically *possible* to use that Intel wireless chipset with anything but x86 CPU's (not just that, but actually _Intel_ x86 CPU's)? And would it make any sense what-so-ever even if it was? And yes, portability is a great thing, but quite frankly, so is good hardware. I personally can't really blame Intel engineers for not caring about irrelevant hardware. We should make technical decisions on _technical_ grounds, not some perceived "this is how the world should work" grounds. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
