Bug#494120: binary firmware in drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c

2008-08-08 Thread Robert Millan
Hi Steve, I think we're wasting our time here; the bug is closed and I don't intend to reopen it. However you said some inaccuracies that I feel need to be corrected. On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 11:07:31PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > You might have a point here; the root of the problem seems

Bug#494120: binary firmware in drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c

2008-08-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 07:52:36PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > By "small chunk", you mean 64 bytes of data. That's not a program; that's > > almost certainly register initialization values, which are data, and there > > is no requirement in the DFSG that arbitrary bits of data (which are too

Bug#494120: binary firmware in drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c

2008-08-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 09:02:33PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > > Feel free to discuss this in -legal, though that doesn't change the fact > that we currently don't expect textual source for arbitrary bits of data. Okay, I will (eventually). I don't expect you consider this corner-case release cri

Bug#494120: binary firmware in drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c

2008-08-07 Thread Luk Claes
Robert Millan wrote: On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 09:34:31AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c (licensed under GPLv2+) contains a small chunk of binary code: static u8 tda10021_inittab[0x40]= { 0x73, 0x6a, 0x23, 0x0a, 0x02, 0x37, 0x77, 0x1a, 0x37, 0x6

Bug#494120: binary firmware in drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c

2008-08-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 09:34:31AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c (licensed under GPLv2+) contains a > > small chunk of binary code: > > > static u8 tda10021_inittab[0x40]= > > { > > 0x73, 0x6a, 0x23, 0x0a, 0x02, 0x37, 0x77, 0x1a, > > 0x37,

Bug#494120: binary firmware in drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c

2008-08-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 07, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c (licensed under GPLv2+) contains a > small chunk of binary code: What makes you believe this is code instead of data to be loaded in the card registers? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digita

Bug#494120: binary firmware in drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c

2008-08-07 Thread Robert Millan
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.26-1 Severity: serious Hi, drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c (licensed under GPLv2+) contains a small chunk of binary code: static u8 tda10021_inittab[0x40]= { 0x73, 0x6a, 0x23, 0x0a, 0x02, 0x37, 0x77, 0x1a, 0x37, 0x6a, 0x17, 0x8a, 0x1e, 0x86,