Hi, Yesterday it was brought to my attention that Broadcom has published a linux driver that contains a few binary blobs for x86 but also lots of code.
This is a good thing for us (the reverse engineering team) as it allows us to check a lot of things that we now have as code and previously didn't, some things however remain binary and we will still reverse engineer those. It should still allow us to support the PCI-E versions and newer DMA engines better, for example. That said, the legal status of this driver is (at best) unclear, hence I'd like to ask you to not look at it until we can figure out whether you can or not, there's no license at all, the only statement is in the source code files as: * Copyright 2005-2006, Broadcom Corporation * All Rights Reserved. * * THIS SOFTWARE IS OFFERED "AS IS", AND BROADCOM GRANTS NO WARRANTIES OF ANY * KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, BY STATUTE, COMMUNICATION OR OTHERWISE. BROADCOM * SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS * FOR A SPECIFIC PURPOSE OR NONINFRINGEMENT CONCERNING THIS SOFTWARE. I'll be looking at it and updating the specification at bcm-specs.sipsolutions.net. Thanks, Johannes
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