On Jun 21, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On Jun 21, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> no, one of the rules for the network is that the software must be >>> certified, >> >> In this case you might have grounds to enforce this restriction of the >> network on the network controller itself, I suppose.
> how would the network controller know if the software has been modified? The loader could check that and set a flag in the controller. > what sort of signal can the network controller send that couldn't be > forged by the OS? Whatever the network controller designer created to enable it to do so. > how would you do this where the device is a receiver on the netwoek > (such as a satellite receiver) If it's input-only, then you can't possibly harm the operation of the network by only listening in, can you? -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
