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 Originally Posted by independent1
Yes, yes they do. Where drivers for a specific device are closed-source, they're forced to look up the spec sheets and write open-source drivers themselves. You'd be surprised at what the CyanogenMod team(s) have to do to support the number of devices that they do--and expand to new devices and update each device for new releases like ICS at the same time.
I know they are porting and tweaking existing drivers. Maybe CM team has knowledge of writing drivers, but such skills are rare at XDA or else. I know two graphic driver related efforts that never succeeded (one from WM era, and another from Android) and lots of people ware involved. That is why I'm so skeptical about webOS future, because it's one thing to harvest already written drivers and adjust them to run on your build, but when it comes to complete writing of drivers from scratch, than its completely another game.
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