So:

  - wireless chips are obscure and buggy
  - audio chips are obscure and buggy

I wish for some organized effort to bring a few set of open hardware chips to replace proprietary ones that seem to only work easily on proprietary OSes.

That would complement the work of guys like bunnie huang (novena laptop) and would let the linux world enjoy sound hardware for (allegedly) sound software.

Maybe that's just a pipe dream and the complexity emerge whether or not it's open.