On Jan 4, 2011, Richard Stallman <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, I believe so. I'm not sure the current pcmcia driver doesn't > really offer the interface the userland program that makes the > conversion relies on, or if it only fails to do so on a machine that > doesn't have a pcmcia interface, but the important point is that it's > definitely not functional on any random machine.
> In that case, either we need a separate binary-to-text converter for > these files http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03468.html has a patch by Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov with a stand-alone version of the dump_cis program, that converts .cis binary to text. The separate patch that introduces mkcis, to convert from text to binary, wasn't archived there, but we already have a stand-alone program that does that job, so there aren't any freedom problems with the binaries, the only issue now, if any, is GPL compliance: sh/could we ship only the binaries if we know they were built from textual sources that we don't ship? FWIW, 2.6.37-libre is already out, without the .cis files, but with requests for them. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter http://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer _______________________________________________ linux-libre mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsfla.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-libre
