Previously Dan Shearer wrote: > My company has been asked to undertake some work involving building a > reliable hardware detection library for Intel Linux. There are quite a few > of these around, and several of them have links to people in the Debian > project, or appear to do so anyway. I looked for an appropriate list on > the Debian web pages but couldn't find one. > > So, perhaps you can advise me: > > 1) We want to build on existing code as much as possible (no question > of IP hassles, this clearly has to be GPLd.) Has Debian adopted > any particular library for this? Who would know about it? Not yet as far as I know. I think it is planned as part of the woody boot-floppies, but I haven't heard of anyone working on this so far. > 2) Which Debian group is likely to be most interested in this topic? It would be of direct use for the boot-floppies team, however other developer might also be interested. > 3) There is the question of what to do next once the hardware has been > detected. What is the best group for discussing the Debian > installer, and interfaces for libraries that it uses etc? Definitely boot-floppies. I've cc'ed them on this response as well so they can pick this up. > I very much want to see this done in conjunction with the appropriate > Debian team. I would love to see this happen! Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | wichert@liacs.nl http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
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