2010/8/20 Raja Subramanian <[email protected]> > > Can someone please enlighten me on what Mark means by "binary-blob > drivers"? > > "Blobs" are binary only firmware which are used by addon cards/devices. > > [..]
> See: http://kerneltrap.org/node/6497 > > > > I also don't understand how making them proprietary makes the OS open > > source > > Binary only drivers and blobs are included in Ubuntu/Debian only when > good quality open source drivers do not exist. > Thank you so much for the insight. From what I understand, Blobs are here to stay for a while. Why does this happen? Because there are not enough people willing to write code for these hardware or is it because each hardware for which the drivers are written are way too diverse from each other? Is there a standard for lets say building the basics of a mobile broadband modem? Has there been any attempt to write a framework for groups of similar[in h/w] devices? Or am I not making sense here? Just curious. _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
