Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: WLAN drivers | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Fri, 03 Feb 2006 13:33:56 -0500 |
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On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 13:18 -0500, Stephen Clark wrote: > The module includes a binary hal module > that keeps the > card from being abused - programmed out of FCC specs. Why is so > different from a card that > has to have firmware loaded on it that in essence does the same thing > - > prevents the driver > writer from programming the card out of FCC specs.
Big difference - firmware runs on the device, on the other side of a bus, while a binary driver runs in the same CPU in kernel context.
I don't buy the FCC argument - after all there are completely open drivers for other chipsets and I don't recall the FCC coming after the distributors.
Lee
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