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SubjectRe: Portable binary modules
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.
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