On 01/31/2013 04:55 PM, Bastian Bittorf wrote:
* Daniel Gimpelevich <dan...@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us> [31.01.2013
16:47]:
You mean the days before this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowers_v._Baystate_Technologies
Any such effort to do this would need to be using the "clean-room"
hmmm, correct me but the drivers are GPL licenced (automatically) because
they are shipped with a GPL-kernel. only problem is you havent the
source. so simply make it and release anonymously? 8-) if you care i
will do. i'am sure no one will complain...
Not if these are external kernels, and they are.
the question was more: are there tools available, which can generate
"good" c-code out of a mips-object file?
IDA + HexRays usually does an excellent job for popular architectures.
method, which is exactly what OpenWrt jumpstarted for the brcm43xx
chips, leading to the modern "b43" driver, which OpenWrt then made use
b43 is another story, because there was a need/wish to use
linux-infrastructure instead of an self-implemented 80211 env
(which is what wl did)
It's the same with the Broadcom DSL drivers, they use their own ATM
stack (not linux-atm).
--
Florian
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