On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 03:04:22PM -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 11:58:17AM -0800, Ben Greear wrote: > > David Hollis wrote: > > > >I don't know the details of the Atheros chip to > > >know if it might be possible to generate a firmware that users would > > >have to install in /lib/firmware and let the driver load it up. If so, > > >that would be the answer. > > > > The HAL is not real firmware..just normal kernel code. I wonder if you > > could get around this by using a sort of CPU emulator and/or virtual machine > > and load the HAL 'firmware' into that? > > <brainstorm> > > Any chance the driver could be rearchitected w/ the HAL functionality > moved into a userland helper? I haven't even looked at the driver > to see if this could be practical...?
Folks, please stop these stupid ideas. There's a free driver, let's improve and merge it. That's a thousand times better than any half-free driver with buggy binary blobs. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
