Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclearcopyright notice.

From: Xavier Bestel
Date: Thu Apr 07 2005 - 03:25:33 EST


Le jeudi 07 avril 2005 Ã 10:04 +0200, David Schmitt a Ãcrit :

> Then I would like to exercise my right under the GPL to aquire the source code
> for the firmware (and the required compilers, starting with genfw.c which is
> mentioned in acenic_firmware.h) since - as far as I know - firmware is coded
> today in VHDL, C or some assembler and the days of hexcoding are long gone.

VHDL is a hardware description language. You don't code firmware in
VHDL.

Xav


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