Hi Mike,
thanks a lot for your answers. The licensing model is clearly very important and I did not realized they are not under GPL (when one gets used to work with tons of open source software, sometimes assumes by default that all the sources are covered by this license ...). I'm getting in touch with Philips technical support to clear this point.
Regards, llandre
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Hrm... I'll give you some of mine. These were when I first tried to get USB working:
1. It used an older version of the kernel, one that won't get much (any?) support from the linux community. I wanted 2.6
2. I took a brief look at some sort of licence agreement, or whatever it was (can't remember) that went along with it. I don't know if I could even legally use it (especially compiled in), but at any rate, that by itself scared me off. I'd have to take a look at it again to give you a better answer.
3. I took a quick look at the code, and it didn't seem (albeit to my inexperienced eye) very well written. *shrug*
4. I prefer to stick with full open source, community-support drivers. For instance, when we used a MSys DiskOnChip, I moved from their drivers to the linux-mtd drivers, which didn't work quite as well, but I could compile it statically into the kernel. (motivation: increased boot speed)
I hope this has been helpful. At least one of the above points must be a valid reason.
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