[ltp] Re: lenovo support for linux

[Stefan Monnier]

> This is indeed very painful, but just a thought, is it really hard to
> maintain a list of drivers and a repo (aptget/yum) and ask dsitros to
> maintain the mirror? Why do we always end up hearing way too many
> distros to support.  If the underlying drivers are same, let obscure
> distro compile their own dirver and maintain their least.

> Truely, we need grapics and sound driver (may be one for fan/bios), rest we
> can roll w/ the standard.  Is it so hard?

That would be poor support for GNU/Linux.  The better support for
GNU/Linux is to get the necessary code upstream, which usually amounts
to funding a kernel hacker and/or providing him with the necessary
help&info.


        Stefan