http://kerneltrap.org/node/6650
OpenBSD: wpi, A Blob Free Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver
Damien Bergamini recently announced wpi, "/a blob-free driver for Intel
PRO/Wireless 3945ABG 802.11 adapters as found in Centrino Duo laptops/"
for OpenBSD. His announcement came a little over two months after Intel
released the controversial ipw3945 driver for Linux
...
When asked the likelihood that the wpi driver would be ported to Linux,
Damien thought that this was unlikely. "/I doubt the Linux community
will ever leverage this work since Intel is developing a 802.11 layer
for the Linux kernel,/" he said, "/Linux kernel developers probably
can't afford to upset Intel./" He also pointed out that the blob-based
driver is already in wide use among Linux distributions, "/and the worst
thing is that most users of these distributions will not even notice
they're running some binary only stuff that has privileged access to the
kernel because it's completely silent./"
...
Damien noted that it doesn't bother him that companies don't want to
reveal all of their source code, "/but what annoys me is that they still
pretend to provide open source drivers while you only have access to the
part of the code that drives the MAC and communicates with the blob./"
buat kita mah, apa saja lah, yg penting it works :-)
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