[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Your driver can be compiled and successfully executed without the >> firmware, >But does it do anything useful when executed?... I don't know how you define "useful". All its functionality is already there, but probably the controlled device will only respond to a subset of the available commands until its firmware is uploaded. But again, this is a "limitation" of the hardware device, not of the driver.
>Actually, I'm inclined to be very broad-minded on that point. If the >driver, for instance, can load arbitrary microcode to the hardware at Sure, it will upload whatever you feed it. >> A similar issue was raised for clients for proprietary instant messaging >> protocols like AIM and MSN: long ago it was decided that as long as they >> are DFSG-free they can be part of Debian, even if they are obviously >> useless without the proprietary servers they connect to. >Interesting. Do alternative servers exist for these protocols? Not that I know. -- ciao, Marco