Am 2008-10-28 02:45:31, schrieb Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo: > If it's not clear by now, people are not arguing that hardware should > not be used if it is not free hardware (either it is feasible or not to > distribute or exist source code). The matter is whether source for code > that will not execute in the main CPU is needed for those codes in the > main section. So, your point that it is not x86 code is moot in the case > "firmware" is considered to be the same as other software in Debian. If > source code isn't available or "possible" for the chip carries the same > requirements for DFSG as the case would be for the x86 code, in the case > "firmware" should still follow DFSG.
Anw what do you do with sourcode, for which there is not even a compiler
availlable under Linux/BSD? And you HAV to buy a 8000 US$ development
suit from the chip manufacturer to build the firmware?
I have such software and EVEN me can not read the firmware.
I have ONLY a "project" in my IDE and it produce the firmware.
And now you!
> Even machine readable form would still be considered source if its
> interpretation by the machine could be presented to someone to make
> modifications to it. If it is not modifiable for some reason and every
> design should be done from scratch, perhaps there is a problem with the
> tools and/or processes used.
Do you have already tried to modify a binary blob or simply opened a (no
mather which) binary from /bin/ in a HEX editor and tried to modify it?
> > Even the chip manufacturers don't know what they are. It's totally
> > machine generated chip garbage as far as they are concerned. Once you
>
> Which machines do generate this "garbage"? Do they do it all by
> themselves? Are there machines designing new hardware now without human
> intervention? Or are those chips magically enhanced so they could make
> some sense of any random bitstream and there is no real mistery in
> generating this "garbage"?
The software/IDE use "projects" which are not in human readable form...
...and if you have finisched, you klick the button "Output firmware"
and then you have the firmware blob.
> If the manufacturers are unaware of it, I doubt the designer is unaware
> of it.
???
It seems you have never designed Hardware or realy coded software for it
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
24V Electronic Engineer
Tamay Dogan Network
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