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 _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
