Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 7 Dec 2008 08:55:42 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: odd habits with binary blobs..... |
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On Wed 2008-12-03 22:40:51, devzero@web.de wrote: > hello, > > i gave r1soft`s new/free "hot copy" a try today and .... failed: > > vserver2:/tmp/usr/sbin # ./hcp-setup > Gathering kernel information > Gathering kernel information complete. > Error: A network error occurred connecting to 'kmod32.r1soft.com' > > what a pain....trying to setup a linux kernel module, the installer wants to phone home - and fails. > > but it`s even worse - http://wiki.r1soft.com/display/LTR1D/hcp-setup tells: > > BUILDING HOT COPY DRIVER FROM SOURCE > > hcp-setup will tar up your kernel source tree or headers and upload them to an R1Soft build server over HTTPS using XML-RPC. Once your system's kernel headers or source have been uploaded the R1Soft build server will compile a Hot Copy device driver as a kernel module and hcp-setup will automatically download it to your system. > > In order for hcp-setup to work your Linux server must have HTTPS Internet access to kmod32.r1soft.com (32-bit systems) and kmod64.r1soft.com (64-bit systems) > > > how weird is THAT? > > did anybody ever come across such "build binary blobs remotely" system ? > > > ok, disqualified. won`t touch it again, as i also don`t know what REALLY is transferred to the vendor - but i wonder what kernel devs think about such build system and what in-kernel alternative exists for this. (i think it doesn`t exist - but maybe somebody working on that ?) >
Hmm. Gcc was not really designed to prevent .c source from exploiting it.
So I guess you could have some phun :-).
Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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