2013/11/6 Ernesto <forosylis...@ernet.com.ar>: > I've read on http://wiki.openwrt.org/inbox/adsl_support that a user named > lorema is making progress towards open ADSL drivers. I'd like to contact him > to ask information about how to replicate his experiences, but I don't know > how to find his email. > > Where do you find this kind of info?
By looking at the linked OpenWrt forum thread [0] I can see that lorema is trying to recompile leaked non-GPL sources. If he success or not has no real meaning for OpenWrt or Linux world, because that will be illegal to push his code to the kernel. I'm not sure if it's even OK to distribute that code (I doubt a bit). The right way to add support for ADSL is to: 1) Find a group that will write the specs. How they do this doesn't matter. They can RE binary or whatever else they manage to. Please remember that as soon as they get involved in that process, they won't be allowed to work on GPL driver anymore. 2) Find a group that will use prepared specs to write a GPL driver. It's called clean room engineering. It was previously used for Broadcom wireless chipsets and resulted in b43 driver. It seems that specs were started, but I guess they are far from being complete: http://bcm63xx.sipsolutions.net/ [0] https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=120035#p120035 -- Rafał _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
