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Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:17:10 +0100
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Dear David,

In message <200902060824.06851.david.jander@protonic.nl> you wrote:
> 
> I decided to try out Application Note AN3793 from Freescale (3D Graphics on 
> the ADS512101 Board Using OpenGL ES).
> 
> I started trying to load the provided (binary!) kernel modules into our 
> kernel, but I am geeting errors inserting the modules using 

The binary kernel modules are a mess. Not  only  they  are  a  pretty
clear  GPL license violation (and I wonder what Freescale is going to
do to sort this out), but it effectively always locks you down to the
specific LTIB kernel version (and probably even to  a  specific  DTS)
they were built against. Open source? Forget it.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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