Well, I'm back now. As it was explained to me, IBM did some joint development
with a third company that did DSP work, so they don't own all the rights to
the chip. In order to release anything they have to get agreement with their
partner, and apparently their partner was not buying into Open Source. Given
this release, it looks like they got some buy-in, but not enough to release
the programming of the actual DSP itself (which is kind of stupid, in my
opinion. One of the powers of DSP chips is that they are completely
programmable. TI used to give away SDK's for their DSP chip, just to get
developers to work on it).
jeff
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Thought for today: copy protection n.
A class of methods for preventing
incompetent pirates from stealing software and legitimate customers
from using it. Considered silly.
Paul Lussier said:
> In a message dated: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:58:54 EST
> Rich Payne said:
>
> >At one of the Linux shows I went to the IBM booth and said what's the
> >deal with MWave and Linux, are you going to code a driver or what? His
> >response was that since IBM itself was slowly moving away from MWave
> >alltogether that there would be little, if any work done on it.
> >
> >I don't know who the 3rd party is here....
>
> The DSP chip is not IBM's. They wrote the driver for it (MWave) under NDA
> with whomever it belongs to. They've released the driver source, but can't
> release the DSP code itself.
>
> Or something like that. Jeff was explaining this to me yesterday, but he's
> out of the office today, so he won't be able to expound upon this anytime
> soon :)
> --
>
> Seeya,
> Paul
> ----
> It may look like I'm just sitting here doing nothing,
> but I'm really actively waiting for all my problems to go away.
>
> If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right!
>
>
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