I demand that Georg Acher may or may not have written... > On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 12:33:39PM +0200, Clemens Kirchgatterer wrote: [snip] > Until now, there's AFAIK no legal decision that you are not allowed to > include binary only modules in the kernel. If it gets that far, we will put > in user space. No real gain, but if it helps... As things stand, ISTM that if you distribute, you'll be in clear licence-violation territory in the view of at least some of the copyright holders. >>> The usual practical "anti-binary" arguments for a PC platform (new >>> mainboard requires new kernel) don't count here, it's an embedded >>> system. You can't simply switch the kernel anyway, as it has many >>> additions for the V4L-stuff. >> what if i wan't to put additional faetures into the card? what if i >> want to fix a bug in the firmware? benefit from performance improvments >> in later kernel releases? > IMO a theoretical question. This is not file server. It's a video decoding > card. That doesn't matter. It's still Linux-based and you still need to release the modified sources (I'd say enough to allow the building of a complete filesystem image for the device). And anyway, I think that the kernel-upgrade and bug-fix points are valid... and it'd probably help if you get as many of your changes upstream as you reasonably can (if you haven't already started on this). For a start, that's likely to make it easier for *you* to switch to a newer kernel :-) > Most of the important stuff is done in the (closed) co-processors > anyway. If you want it to be a file server, you don't need the HDMI output. No argument there. [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | <URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/> (PGP 2.6, GPG keys) Steer clear of incorrect forms of verbs that have snuck in the language. _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
