On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Siju George <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Anivar Aravind > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> I am part of gNEWSenSe MIPS porting team >> Major Patches are on Kernel (Which is is now part of upsream Linux >> Kernel), X (also part of upstream now),Complete X server compatible >> Silicon motion graphics Driver (a team is working on it ) Wireless >> Driver (There was a need of rewriting of its iee802.11 stack to get it >> to get it accepted on upstream) and some basic issues with glibc that >> preventing wvdialing (patch is available), >> If somebody uses mplayer that also need a patch, but it is not fully fixed >> yet >> > > This is out of curiosity Anivar. > > Being a developer I guess you know clearly what goes inside the > gNEWSenSe tree so I need not rely on people you only have hear say > knowledge. > > Do you include all the Device Drivers ( not for MIPS but for others ) > from Linux kernel in your gnsnse Distro?
gnewsense usage packages from Linux Libre project, a project to remove binary blobs and other non-free device codes from Linux Kernel , That is a major step in making it as a Free Distro > What do you do when you find a device driver was written by Linux > Developers after signing NDA from a Vendor who does not free > documentation and if full of magic numbers? > > thanks > > --Siju > > _______________________________________________ > Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List > http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ > http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > #[email protected] > -- "[It is not] possible to distinguish between 'numerical' and 'nonnumerical' algorithms, as if numbers were somehow different from other kinds of precise information." - Donald Knuth _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
