Messages in this thread | | | From | "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sockreg2.4.5-05 inet[6]_create() register/unregister table | Date | Mon, 11 Jun 2001 08:45:43 +0000 (UTC) |
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"Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> writes:
>Yep.
>Consider a chunk of x86 instructions using a home-grown OS >abstraction layer, and drivers that implement that layer for >both Linux and any non-GPL operating system. The binary blob >is obviously not derived from Linux, and may in fact run >without modification in a BSD or Solaris/x86 kernel.
I had an interesting discussion with my brother-in-law at this weekend: What is source code?
In my (very much younger days), I used to hack in 8085 and Z80 assembler and even hex codes directly onto the disk / files using all those scary tools like DDT and M80/L80 under CP/M (those were the days when Microsoft tools were really bleeding edge. ;-) )
What if there is really a warbled indivdual that can write a driver in object code? Or at least in x86 assembler and then performs the magic necessary to link it into the kernel?
Is this a "binary only" driver or just a driver on par with the NVidia that is just "GPL'ed but unreadable"?
Regards Henning
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