On 02/25/11 3:27 AM, ken wrote:
> I read that.  I would imagine that a lot of digital cameras-- in fact, a
> lot of digital devices-- employ Linux in their firmware.  If I were
> writing code for an ARM processor, that's what I'd do.  Why reinvent the
> wheel?  You'd think under the GPL they'd be required to divulge the
> firmware code.  And there should be a way to hack into these.  But now
> I'm going way OT.

the embedded device guys seem to get around that nowdays by offering the 
source as a generic kernel and util tarball and a tarball of their own 
code they consider GPL, which is almost never buildable without massive 
effort, and is usually very  incomplete.


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