"Still, the OSDL (later the Linux Foundation)
board—composed mostly of large vendors—listed device
drivers as the #2 "most pressing issue". So the Linux Driver
Project (LDP) was created. Alas, Greg reports on his blog, "No
vendors showed up." But after he announced, "Tell me all of the
hardware that you know of that is not supported by Linux!", he
writes, "the response from users was overwhelming"."