Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Dec 1999 22:52:31 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Portable binary modules |
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Hi!
> > Oh, and once you will solve these minor points could you please explain > > how I can use this module on my Alpha or any other non-x86 Linux machine? > > Then I will start getting somewhat excited. > > The independent GPL'ed ltmodem-0.9.3 driver should work on your Alpha. > If not it's a bug :-)
Of course, you'll be able to do voice or v.21, because that's about everything we've got just now ;-).
> Of course non-x86 is of /no/ interest to Lucent for the same reason that > non-Red Hat is of no interest: Their customers (modem and PC vendors) > have not requested any other support.
That is not true. I've seen SuSE + Toshiba asking them for drivers. Pavel PS: Actually, lucent drivers can pretty happily live in userspace. (They only need interrupt. In case that irq is not shared (common case) it is chance to do this in userland). I guess non-opensourced binaries are much better than binary-only kernel drivers. -- I'm really pavel@ucw.cz. Look at http://195.113.31.123/~pavel. Pavel Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please!
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