I wonder if this would be at all possible:
1. find folks who have problem hardware
2. find the developers who would benefit from testing on that hardware
3. devise a system where the hardware would be loaned and be returned (if desired)
4. Profit!
I guess some manufacturers give hardware for testing, but not all. So maybe individuals could loan hardware to developers. Or maybe many folks could create a pool of money to buy a piece of problem hardware and donate to get it supported? And I supposes since all Gnu systems would benfits, the cost could be distributed amongst all 100+ distro users? Maybe the hardware could be raffled off afterwards to the folks who donated to make it interesting? Would Debian(or similar) consider using some of its hard-to-use funds for this?

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