Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please don't lose track of the fact that there's nothing inherently wrong > with a sourceless binary if that's all the source anyone *has*.
I think in most of the cases under consideration, we have firmware which a hardware manufacturer wrote and then either published or stuck inside a windows driver, and which then found its way into a Linux driver. So while your statement is right, the relevant "anyone" includes the hardware manufacturer, who quite likely does have source in a more convenient form than a pure binary. > If the > assembly was painstakingly reverse-engineered, it *is* the source for all > intents and purposes [...] Quite right, but assembly code is *not* binary. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
