[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Heck, for all I know there's a device out there where the "firmware on >disk" is verilog code, and it's compiled by the driver and loaded to >an FPGA on the device. > >Surely that's software. I'm not so sure that an FPGA design is software (for sane definitions of software).
>Why draw the line at software, then? Why not wish for open specs for >all the chips, so you can modify the CPU or GPU? I do, don't you? But still this does not make it true, and I have to accept reality. -- ciao, Marco