Crossroads
Harald Welte
laforge at openmoko.org
Wed Mar 14 16:45:16 CET 2007
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 10:38:38AM -0700, dimitris wrote:
> Intel's laptop-oriented chips have GPL drivers, albeit with binary
> modules - but not *kernel* binary modules.
>
> The 3945abg driver uses a binary userspace daemon and a binary on-chip
> microcode:
that is already old news. their new driver uses firmware that doesn't
need the binary-only daemon.
anyway, all intel chipsets are not marketed or sold for the embedded
market, but just for desktop/mobile use.
Also, this is, once again, not a chipset that is suitable for mobile
phones due to size and power constraints.
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- Harald Welte <laforge at openmoko.org> http://openmoko.org/
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