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I'd rather have a slow driver than none at all...
I'd rather have a driver which ran a bit slower than no driver at all. Some sort of abstraction layer should make this possible.

If manufacturers then want to release "optimized" drivers for the major distributions then that's fine too but first priority is to get the thing working and not break everything if I update my kernel (or whatever).
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Great to have the best and brightest working on the compiler.  DonnieBoy | 05/06/05
Another thing, we need binary compatibility accross distributions/kernels  DonnieBoy | 05/06/05
One would think that there would be a way ...  George Mitchell | 05/06/05
The problem is venders have to supply 10 or so drivers.  DonnieBoy | 05/06/05
And I'm telling you that the answer is a wrapper  George Mitchell | 05/07/05
Only if you go lowest common denominator  Knorthern Knight | 05/06/05
This is true but  hipparchus2000 | 05/07/05
Kind of like the idea behind NDISwrapper  Hugh Jass | 05/07/05
Let's put the REAL issues on the table  toomuchgreeatea@... | 05/07/05
Those are only issues for *YOU*...  figgle | 05/09/05
I'd rather have a slow driver than none at all...  figgle | 05/09/05
Binary compatibility...  Henry Miller | 05/07/05
This guy must be a newbie in Linux  toomuchgreeatea@... | 05/07/05
If you care about optimizations  balsover | 05/07/05
Improving Optimization in GCC.  mobrien_12@... | 05/07/05
No it is not a waste of time  balsover | 05/08/05
GCC can specialize . . .  CobraA1 | 05/08/05
GCC tries to specialize  balsover | 05/08/05
CobraA1, you just got spanked.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/08/05
What optimisations?  Richard Flude | 05/08/05
Interesting Linux win over Windows ...  George Mitchell | 05/07/05
More of a IBM over Dell story  balsover | 05/08/05

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