From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
To: "Nathan Williams" <ngwilliams@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: MODULE_LICENSE usage
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:20:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3k5s75eyb.fsf@maximus.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4e196fa0708062029x681fafe7hc493c774a936cdf3@mail.gmail.com> (Nathan Williams's message of "Tue, 7 Aug 2007 13:29:46 +1000")
"Nathan Williams" <ngwilliams@gmail.com> writes:
> The binary blob is run in the kernel. I wasn't aware of any
> completely open-source drivers for ADSL modems, mine is a PCI ADSL
> modem.
People around here use Alcatel/Thomson "Speedtouch" and Sagem
"Fast" USB ADSLs. Linux has open-source drivers for both.
USB seems like an advantage in this case, too - you can connect
to any machine including non-PCI small network storage servers
with non-x86 CPU.
Hopefully you have a x86-64 version of the library as well.
You may want to check video cards stories, it seems either your
device is useful and it _will_ be reverse engineered and
eventually a open-source driver will be written, or your device
isn't useful and nobody will bother.
I both cases open-source from start is a clear win.
--
Krzysztof Halasa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-07 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-06 7:53 MODULE_LICENSE usage Nathan Williams
2007-08-06 8:21 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-06 8:24 ` Alan Cox
2007-08-06 10:41 ` Remy Bohmer
2007-08-06 12:25 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-08-06 15:22 ` David Schwartz
2007-08-07 3:29 ` Nathan Williams
2007-08-07 7:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-08-07 15:17 ` Alan Cox
2007-08-07 18:22 ` David Schwartz
2007-08-07 18:22 ` David Schwartz
2007-08-07 19:20 ` Krzysztof Halasa [this message]
2007-08-07 20:02 ` Alan Cox
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