Re: Fwd: Compiling latest kernel (from kernel.org, linux-omap git version) in n800

2007-05-02 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Guillerm, thanks for your reply. So, about the use of --force-vermagic with busybox modprobe... What should I have to do to make busybox modprobe support --force-vermagic? get modprobe source code, and...? How about to use n770? The WLAN interface driver source code is available or it is like

Re: Fwd: Compiling latest kernel (from kernel.org, linux-omap git version) in n800

2007-05-02 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: Guillerm, thanks for your reply. So, about the use of --force-vermagic with busybox modprobe... What should I have to do to make busybox modprobe support --force-vermagic? get modprobe source code, and...? How about to use n770? There is slightly quicker/easier

Re: Fwd: Compiling latest kernel (from kernel.org, linux-omap git version) in n800

2007-04-27 Thread Andreas Orfanos
Sometimes silicon suppliers don't want to disclosure any source code cause major part of their offering is dependant on a software device driver. Shifting more low-level functionality to run as software device driver loads the CPU and memory heavily. Moreover, someone can wonder about the real

Re: Fwd: Compiling latest kernel (from kernel.org, linux-omap git version) in n800

2007-04-27 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 17:44:31 -0300, ext Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: So, finally. Is the unique solution to wait nokia until they release the umac.ko source and live with n800 + latest linux-omap kernel version without WLAN support? Normal module-init-tools' modprobe has a --force-vermagic

Re: Fwd: Compiling latest kernel (from kernel.org, linux-omap git version) in n800

2007-04-26 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Andreas Orfanos wrote: It is against Open Source Software ethics to keep kernel modules proprietary. True Definitely there is a GPL violation here. False Nokia's tables exist today because people kept those GPL moral obligations. True but the opposite may be also true i.e. there

Re: Fwd: Compiling latest kernel (from kernel.org, linux-omap git version) in n800

2007-04-26 Thread Kalle Valo
ext Andreas Orfanos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is against Open Source Software ethics to keep kernel modules proprietary. Definitely there is a GPL violation here. Nokia's tables exist today because people kept those GPL moral obligations. Release functional source code of umac.ko please.

Re: Fwd: Compiling latest kernel (from kernel.org, linux-omap git version) in n800

2007-04-26 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
So, finally. Is the unique solution to wait nokia until they release the umac.ko source and live with n800 + latest linux-omap kernel version without WLAN support? Kallo, can you please explain us what is the main problem that nokia doesn't release the umac.ko source code? Leandro.

Re: Fwd: Compiling latest kernel (from kernel.org, linux-omap git version) in n800

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kalle Valo wrote: Kallo, can you please explain us what is the main problem that nokia doesn't release the umac.ko source code? Sorry, I can't answer. Obviously I don't know but I think it's highly likely that it's not Nokia's to release--the

Re: Fwd: Compiling latest kernel (from kernel.org, linux-omap git version) in n800

2007-04-25 Thread Kalle Valo
ext Leandro Melo de Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is a bad news! :( Is there a plan to make umac.ko source code available? Unfortunately no. And about cx3110x updates, when do you plan to update it? I cannot make any promises, sorry. What is the latest linux-omap kernel version

Re: Fwd: Compiling latest kernel (from kernel.org, linux-omap git version) in n800

2007-04-25 Thread Andreas Orfanos
It is against Open Source Software ethics to keep kernel modules proprietary. Definitely there is a GPL violation here. Nokia's tables exist today because people kept those GPL moral obligations. Release functional source code of umac.ko please. Andreas On 4/25/07, Kalle Valo [EMAIL