On Thursday 14 December 2006 15:12, Ben Collins wrote: > You can't talk about drivers that don't exist for Linux. Things like > bcm43xx aren't effected by this new restriction for GPL-only drivers. > There's no binary-only driver for it (ndiswrapper doesn't count). If the > hardware vendor doesn't want to write a driver for linux, you can't make > them. You can buy other hardware, but that's about it.
Not that is matters in this discussion, but there are binary Broadcom 43xx drivers for linux available. > Here's the list of proprietary drivers that are in Ubuntu's restricted > modules package: > > madwifi (closed hal implementation, being replaced in openhal) > fritz Well, that's not just one, right? That's like, 10 or so for the different AVM cards. I'm just estimating. Correct me, if I'm wrong. (And if I didn't mention it yet; AVM binary drivers are complete crap.) > ati > nvidia > ltmodem (does that even still work?) > ipw3945d (not a kernel module, but just the daemon) > Don't get me wrong, I'm not bashing reverse engineering, or writing our > own drivers. It's how Linux got started. But the problem isn't as narrow > as people would like to think. And proprietary code isn't a growing > problem. At best, it's just a distraction that will eventually go away > on it's own. Well, I _hope_ that, too. -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
