Am Samstag, den 25.04.2009, 23:33 +0800 schrieb Markus Rechberger: > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Markus Rechberger > <mrechberger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Steven Toth <stoth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> There's no need for Micronas nor Trident to provide such kerneldrivers > >>> as long as the userland driver is available. It's also much easier to > >>> install than the earlier versions. > >> > >> Markus, This is your typical self-serving nonsense and it only serves to > >> confuse the non-technical Linux community. Please don't try to spread your > >> non-GPL tree and userland rhetoric on the list as it's not welcome. > >> > > > > it serves the question about linux support for those devices, if more > > information is needed about it I can be contacted directly of course. > > > > http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0802.0/0015.html > > even Greg Kroah adviced to use for example USBFS for closed source > drivers, and even pointed out to the usb mailinglist for that a while > ago, so I'd say it has a valid reason to coexist now. > > best regards, > Markus > >> This mailing list is dedicated the v4l-dvb GPL source code trees and > >> associated applications. As far as I'm concerned your opinion is not > >> welcome. Please keep all conversation related to promoting and developing > >> the main repositories please. > >> > > > > maybe put up a policy, and also list devices which require a closed > > source firmware which are basically alot linux supported devices > > already. I'm mainly considered about having support for that, if you > > don't like the way it is supported try to start to reverse engineer it > > and don't bother about it. > > > >> Peter, Devin is correct. If a vendor will not provide a driver then vote > >> with your pocket and buy another product. If you do anything else you're not > >> helping the rest of the community. > >> > > > > best regards, > > Markus I would like to hear Ralph's comments on it. So far you have done a very good job to confuse all others. But that is the only thing, I can confirm for sure. That Greg is alright with you, I seriously doubt ... Cheers, Hermann -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
