2013/1/31 Daniel Gimpelevich <dan...@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us>: > On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 08:55 +0100, Bastian Bittorf wrote: >> * Daniel Gimpelevich <dan...@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us> [31.01.2013 >> 08:48]: >> > >> > I don't know whether this will be of much use. Florian, any hope of >> > reusing the binary ADSL modules in 3.x? They're there as unversioned .o, >> >> back in the old days we just used disassemblers, now we even >> have tools which make c-code out of an .o - has anyone tried such tools >> to open the source? >> >> bye, bastian > > You mean the days before this? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowers_v._Baystate_Technologies > Any such effort to do this would need to be using the "clean-room" > method, which is exactly what OpenWrt jumpstarted for the brcm43xx > chips, leading to the modern "b43" driver, which OpenWrt then made use > of. IIRC, the whole process took about six years. There are other issues > involved with Broadcom's ADSL drivers in particular, too. I'll leave it > to Florian to either explain the situation for the Nth time, or link to > earlier explanations.
If someone write the specs, you can probably count on me (see b43, bgmac) ;) -- Rafał _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
