But you still require to detect what type of feature the drivers are offering. Especially the ones which are no perfect.
You cannot assume everything is done properly in the drivers and to start including
features which are sub-par with other boxes. So not sure where is the final benefit.
We don't really care.
The manufacturer makes the BSP, and if the BSP (or the drivers or the box) is crap, we stop building images for that box. We are not in the business of making money for manufacturers, distributors and vendors. It is as simple as that. If they want an OpenPLi image for their hardware, they have to put some effort in.
Or you only provide support to one type of boxes which have their drivers meeting the standard or done in certain way you can detect.
Eh, yes. Not our problem. We do this because we like to, not because we like people making huge sums of money from our free effort.
How is this working for all the other vendors ? Not all the vendors have a team specialized in driver producing and testing.
You are only trying to scale up Openpli so that only the worthy vendors can approach it. Interesting but from android development experience is somehow pointless.
You are not google Android. Even Samsung is cutting corners sometimes.
Their problem.
Or are you in the habit of buying a brand new car, and then accepting that the manufacturer refers you to the <your-brand> ownersclub to get the car services and to get new parts? Because the manufacturer hasn't got any dealerships and mechanics?
Weird that you accept that from a manufacturer you just bought a 600 euro STB from...
You miss the point that in no way are we obliged to make an image for a box or a manufacturer. Anyone can ask for an OpenPLi image, and if they follow the procedure they are accepted and we make an image. Like recently happened for Xsarius. And if they fail, we drop them as fast as we accepted them. We simply prefer not to spend out time fixing someone else's problems, our free time is too precious for that.
There is something going on in this area at time moment, for some boxes the manufacturer hasn't upgraded the BSP to a more recent kernel. So changes are these boxes won't see an OpenPLi-5 unless the manufacturer starts putting some effort in.
It's a big shame that these manufacturers get away with their attitude towards their customers, partly because of the fact people accept they should not expect anything from them after they bought it, people expect teams like us to help them out for free, and other teams keep hacking their way around the shit some manufacturers produce.
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