On Jun 18, 2008, Anders Karlsson <anders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > * Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@xxxxxxxxxx> [20080618 21:50]: >> On Jun 16, 2008, Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@xxxxxx> wrote: > [snip] >> > Not being able to ever change the firmware is good, >> >> It's not. Being Free to change it would undoubtedly be better. > So what's stopping you? Lack of information. > Go buy the programming manual for the chip, It's not available. > or discuss with the chip manufacturer to get the specs They don't want to provide them. > as there may not be a programming manual along the line what you > find with say an Intel CPU. There is, but they choose to keep it to themselves. > As the firmware may be written from scratch in hex, that may be your > *only* option. That's fine, as long as the firmware *is* written from scratch in hex. If not, the vendors are artificially and unethically depriving me of information. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
