From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751222AbWGKUWn (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:22:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751274AbWGKUWn (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:22:43 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.180]:59270 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751285AbWGKUWl convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:22:41 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=EKnAVnJEUfesVHhmCiB8j1vSOzrKNYUvfvydkulXWQ1UuxpldIWHwxps3nu5Tr8Vy8dADdwvqNxEpawFZnab2ELCA4gpe2u+XTB01QaVSzLZFtA8JohtoXK0q7rnhWrkrbz4lxiz6V/RPNMZooHZZ1nXozb4WRsIrNLd/bpfli8= Message-ID: Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:22:40 -0400 From: "Daniel Bonekeeper" To: "Matthieu CASTET" Subject: Re: Will there be Intel Wireless 3945ABG support? Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <1152635563.4f13f77cjsmidt@byu.edu> <20060711171238.GA26186@tuxdriver.com> <200607111909.22972.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <44B3ED29.4040801@gmail.com> <1152644119.18028.46.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 7/11/06, Matthieu CASTET wrote: > Le Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:55:19 +0100, Alan Cox a écrit: > > > Ar Maw, 2006-07-11 am 21:25 +0300, ysgrifennodd Alon Bar-Lev: > >> And to have a system that you know exactly what running in it... > >> Having a binary closed source violate this. > > > > Also if the binary only chunk of code is neccessary to make the open > > source bit work then its a derivative work as I understand the > > situation, which makes it all rather questionable from a licensing > > perspsective. > > > > Hopefully Intel will find a sensible solution to the problem or someone > > will just reverse engineer it away. > > > Well openbsd guys already reversed engineer it : > http://kerneltrap.org/node/6650 [quote] Porting wpi When asked the likelihood that the wpi driver would be ported to Linux, Damien thought that this was unlikely. "I doubt the Linux community will ever leverage this work since Intel is developing a 802.11 layer for the Linux kernel," he said, "Linux kernel developers probably can't afford to upset Intel." [/quote] Huh ? -- What this world needs is a good five-dollar plasma weapon.