On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 13:18 -0500, Stephen Clark wrote:
> The module includes a binary hal module
> that keeps the
> card from being abused - programmed out of FCC specs. Why is so
> different from a card that
> has to have firmware loaded on it that in essence does the same thing
> -
> prevents the driver
> writer from programming the card out of FCC specs.
Big difference - firmware runs on the device, on the other side of a
bus, while a binary driver runs in the same CPU in kernel context.
I don't buy the FCC argument - after all there are completely open
drivers for other chipsets and I don't recall the FCC coming after the
distributors.
Lee
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