Hello Sven,
Sorry for the late reponse, but I am currently Off-Line.
Am 2006-02-13 15:54:23, schrieb Sven Luther:
> Like the mips binary which is part of the tg3 (or some other of those) driver
> and uploaded to to the mips core on the card in question ?
>
> Does that mean that we will also distribute binary only drivers for broadcom
> wifi chips in main ?
I think, between this two passages are very big differences.
The first one load a BLOB/Firmware into a Hardware which runs
ON the Hardware and not in the OS.
The later one, runs the BLOB/firmware inside the OS, where we
can have influence.
In the last years I have created some Hardware myself and I am
using CPU's 386EX und 486/5x86. I am using SRAM/NVRAM to store
OS, which is written entirely in ASM.
Now this software ca not run in the hostsystem of the hardware I
have created. So what now?
Why should I distribute the Sourcecode? - What are your interests?
If someone buy my hardware, he get a userspace tool to upload the
Firmare and run the hardware. And now it is non-free?
Another hardware is the Maxim/Dallas One-Wire technologie. I have
recently bought all sensores and put it into a serial line driven
network. I have coded kernel modules (2.4/2.6) which write into
"/proc/driver/onewire/<serno>" and I controll the One-Wire Hardware
form the OS. Here we have the influence, whether we provide the
sourcecode or not. - main or non-free.
I think, the discusion about Firmware which IS required on some
external hardware only (and does not run in the OS) is beside not
to call it ridiculous.
Note: I have made Debian-Packages for the Firmware BLOBs of my
Hardware so $USER can upload it easyly to the Hardware.
And now again: Why do you want the Source-Code of a perfectly
working Hardware which you can not modify?
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther
Greetings
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
Tamay Dogan Network
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