2013/1/31 Bastian Bittorf <[email protected]>:
> * Daniel Gimpelevich <[email protected]> [31.01.2013 
> 16:47]:
>>
>> You mean the days before this?
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowers_v._Baystate_Technologies
>> Any such effort to do this would need to be using the "clean-room"
>
> hmmm, correct me but the drivers are GPL licenced (automatically) because
> they are shipped with a GPL-kernel. only problem is you havent the
> source. so simply make it and release anonymously? 8-) if you care i
> will do. i'am sure no one will complain...
>
> the question was more: are there tools available, which can generate
> "good" c-code out of a mips-object file?

Not that obvious. Read about GPL & linking, etc.


>> method, which is exactly what OpenWrt jumpstarted for the brcm43xx
>> chips, leading to the modern "b43" driver, which OpenWrt then made use
>
> b43 is another story, because there was a need/wish to use
> linux-infrastructure instead of an self-implemented 80211 env
> (which is what wl did)

Not really. RE team didn't just release disassembled code, but wrote
the whole specs.

-- 
Rafał
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