Re: Linux Incompatibility List

Andrew Miklas
2004-08-25T05:59:30Z

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Hi,

On August 22, 2004 11:54 pm, Gianni Tedesco wrote:
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> There is at least 1 effort underway to reverse engineer it, although I
> don't have much time to work on it. IMO It would be good if such
> companies were consistently shown that we certainly don't need them to
> write drivers for us and even if they go out of their way, there isn't
> much they can do to stop us from writing them ourselves.

I've been working with a few people to reverse engineer the drivers included
with the WAP54G 1.08. We're about 50% done translating them back into C.
Once we're done, we plan to study the driver in order to write our own from
scratch, or ask someone else to cleanroom it.

However, it's likely that by the time we're done (if ever), the hardware will
be supplanted by something else. We've learnt the hard way that reverse
engineering a 420K binary, and completing in a reasonable time isn't as easy
as it sounds. :) This is especially true when you can't simply make
everything public (out of copyright concerns) and do the project in a real
open source way.

- -- Andrew
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