Adam Thornton wrote:
On Sep 30, 2005, at 10:30 AM, Eli Criffield wrote:
Its not a bad idea to have a byte-compiled c code an rpm to distribute
it, and some magical way to compile it on rpm -i. I could see that
coming in really handy for closed source kernel modules that can't
distribute there code due to some NDA somewhere but can't possibly
maintain a version for every kernel out there.
Well, even this is overkill.
A more portable way to do this (for the 3590 drivers, for example)
would be for IBM to distribute not an entire kernel module, but a
binary object with well-defined interfaces that you could link
against locally-built sources to create a kernel module that would
run at any kernel level (sort of like the way all those wireless
drivers which wrap a Windows driver DLL work), and a Makefile to let
you do that. However, this would require them spending more money to
engineer that solution, which they deem not to be a wise investment.
Better, like firmware blobs such as my wireless NICs use.
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John
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