<div>Sometimes silicon suppliers don't want to disclosure any source code</div>
<div>cause major part of their offering is dependant on a software device driver.</div>
<div>Shifting more low-level functionality to run as software device driver loads</div>
<div>the CPU and memory heavily. Moreover, someone can wonder about the </div>
<div>real value that is behind supplier's silicon solution. </div><br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/27/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andrew J. Barr</b> <<a href="mailto:andrew.james.barr@gmail.com">andrew.james.barr@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>Kalle Valo wrote:<br>>> Kallo, can you please explain us what is the main problem that
<br>>> nokia doesn't release the umac.ko source code?<br>><br>> Sorry, I can't answer.<br><br>Obviously I don't know but I think it's highly likely that it's not<br>Nokia's to release--the Conexant people (who have never really been nice
<br>to open source developers--their devkit for the ivtv MPEG cards common<br>in MythTV setups is $10,000) clammed up on the Prism54 developers<br>several years ago when their SoftMAC chips starting turning up in the<br>wild. There has been work on reverse engineering these, called islsm,
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