Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Aunt Tillie builds a kernel (was Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution) | Date | Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:57:28 +0100 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Thomas Duffy <Thomas.Duffy.99@alumni.brown.edu> said:
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> - Someday, a stupid government or court decides that there is a strict > separation between source and binary. Source is protected speech, but > binaries are not. Linux decides it wants a really fast DVD decryption > in the kernel, so it adds it in drivers. But now, distro's cannot > compile and distribute a binary kernel package and the end user will > need to compile the source code in order to watch their DVD.
No need for a full compile, just the offending driver. IF and WHEN it happens. Till then, why bother?
> Why is it unrealistic for everybody to compile their kernel when they do > an install? If it is rather automated, then it just becomes another > step on the progress bar.
If each time you install $distro you have to get compiler, linker, Python, and whatnot up and running; and then have to wait a half hour or so for the standard distributed kernel to compile, I don't see the point. Its much easier/faster/secure to just distribute and install binaries. -- Horst von Brand http://counter.li.org # 22616 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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