Re: Linux, UDI and SCO.

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 20 Sep 1998 15:43:08 +0100 (BST)


> Go to <URL: http://www.equinox.com/tech/ftp_sst2.htm#a7>, look for
> "kernel bug". Anyone who advocates binary-only drivers should be
> forced to try to get an Equinox SST card working on 2.0.35.
>
> In this case the driver is even available as Intel assembly code,
> obviously made by gcc.

Its also derived from Ted Tso's serial driver and seems in violation of the GPL
if you compare their assembler with the output of gcc -S on serial.c

The good side of that btw, is its probably trivial to turn their driver
back into C since you can paste bits back into serial.c

Alan

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