Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Apr 2005 10:32:05 +0200 | From | Olivier Galibert <> | Subject | Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice. |
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On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:17:15AM +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: > Le jeudi 07 avril 2005 à 10:04 +0200, David Schmitt a écrit : > > > Then I would like to exercise my right under the GPL to aquire the source code > > for the firmware (and the required compilers, starting with genfw.c which is > > mentioned in acenic_firmware.h) since - as far as I know - firmware is coded > > today in VHDL, C or some assembler and the days of hexcoding are long gone. > > VHDL is a hardware description language. You don't code firmware in > VHDL.
If the firmware, or part of it, is uploaded to a fpga you do (or Verilog instead of VHDL, same difference).
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