Re: Binary Drivers

Hi!

You're not alone, I think everybody who knows, how
things in a
computer work shares this view.
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Two of the specific arguments I've heard are (a) that
the board (and
its hardware interfaces that the documentation would
describe) involve
IP licensed from a third party, which the board
manufacturer does not
have a legal right to disclose, or (b) that there is, in
fact, no
suitable documentation, because the boards are developed
somewhat
fluidly and the driver is developed directly from
low-level knowledge
that simply isn't written down in a form suitable for
passing on.

So just opensource the driver. It is usually easy to port it, and
possible to clean it up.

I have once ported cd-rom driver from DOS to linux (do you still
remember cdroms not talking ATA?) -- in 2days or so, and the comments
in driver were in korean.

Pavel
--
Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.
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