Free Linux Driver Development - by the Linux Kernel Monkey
The news of the month is that the Linux kernel community is offering end users and in particular companies free Linux driver development services says Greg on the Linux Kernel Monkey Blog [here]. The objective is to reduce the issues and sufferings of searching for a suitable device driver for Linux thus no need to search Linux Device Driver Kits and browse through tens of example drivers in the Linux kernel source tree.
In order to benefit from this offer and initiate the process, users can provide some kind of specification that describes how the anticipated device works, or the email address of an engineer that is willing to answer questions every once in a while put up by the driver development team members. As a result, users will gain access to full working Linux drivers and they will also be added to the main Linux kernel source tree. The Linux kernel developer community has over 1500 members and is growing. All such drivers developed by the Linux kernel developer community will be included all Linux distributions, including the “enterprise” ones.
The offer covers all different types of devices including USB toys to PCI video devices as well as high-speed networking cards. Manufacturers of various hardware devices can now get Linux drivers in working form for their innovations as well. So start by dropping an email to Greg at: greg @ kroah.com and get that device driver for Linux you have been looking for lately!
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