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Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
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The idea behind this FAQ entry is to be able to point to it when people ask us to support additional computers. This makes sure we don't miss important points in our answers and it also tries to convey the kind of work needed, including for less common but important cases like when the code for a computer is found to work on another one (in that case we badly want to know about it, especially if there is only documentation work to be done for it). In addition this kind of question is very common in projects that have limited hardware support, so that also should help us spending less time answering that question again and again. The answer also makes it very clear that GNU Boot is just a distribution and also shows the kind of work various contributors do to show that some of them are really easy to do, in the hope that it could bring up more contributors as well. The way the entry is written (trying to avoid technical words, while also speaking about very technical topics) is because it is meant for a very wide audience that go from less technical users that just want GNU Boot to work on the computer they have but don't know anything about hardware support, to contributors to projects like Coreboot and U-Boot that might just want to also add support for computers they worked on in GNU Boot. Wording like "the computer will need to be supported well by other project" is vague to enable people used to contribute to projects like Coreboot or U-Boot or even experienced distributions contributors will understand it as having the strict minimum of out of tree patches, while also enabling less technical users (that don't know what is an "out of tree patch") to understand more or less what it means. Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org> neox: minor changes (typo and repetition) Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org> |
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