On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote:
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 05:28 +0200, Sergei Steshenko wrote:
"
The difference is that the driver code is executed by the
host CPU, while the firmware code is executed by the device
"
- kinda funny :-).
OK, I propose to run a dual core or dual CPU computer.
One CPU would be for opens source software and the other - for closed
source software.
Now, are the CPUs created equal ?
And are the CPU and IDE driver controller created equal ?
If not, why :-) ?
You'd have to ask a lawyer. It depends on how "linking" is defined and
you would have to go to case law for that. The consensus, presumably
I do not believe there is any case law on that. Linking is a technical term
in computer science. And it would have to be decided in the context of the
GPL license. It is liable to come totally to grief if the courts are asked
to decide what it means. You are liable to have the courts use marriage as
an analogy for linking, with the whole gay marriage/ hetro marriage debate
hauled in, with some totally off the wall decision made as to what counts
as linking (eg that the two piece of code run on the same computer, which
would mean that pine is linked to the kernel)
based on what the kernel developers' lawyers have told them, is that the
line is drawn between "driver" and "firmware" - firmware is not
considered to be linked into the kernel, as it runs on a different CPU
on the other side of a bus, while drivers are considered linked into the
kernel, as they run on the same CPU in the same context as kernel code.
CPUs now adays have many layers and independent sections.
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