On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 15:05 +0100, Ivan Krstić wrote: > David Woodhouse wrote: > > Except for the wireless, where we conveniently ignore our commitment to > > open source. > > Can we let that dead horse rest already?
By all means. But let's not pretend it's still alive either, which your previous mail seemed to be doing. > The wifi firmware situation is a pain in our collective butts. Having > had to weigh the user experience we wish to deliver, and find crucial > to the project's educational goals, against our commitment to software > freedom, was a bitter pill to swallow for the entire core team, and > was discussed endlessly in investigation of other options. There > weren't any. That's a much better reply to Thomas' original mail than what you previously said; thanks for the clarification. > My point was that the routing executes on dedicated hardware, not that > it runs in silicon. But this is picking nits, because the dedicated ARM > is such an ultra-constrained environment that there's no open > source/free routing firmware that even functions in such conditions that > we know of, and certainly standard routing daemons aimed for execution > on normal CPUs don't stand a chance. Want an entry in our hall of fame? > Prove me wrong. I wouldn't ever suggest that normal dæmons would be viable; you're right that they wouldn't stand a chance. There's a _big_ difference between that and claiming it's actually immutable in hardware though. Again, your clarification provides a much better answer than your previous mail. Thanks. -- dwmw2 _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
