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Al Johnson openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk
Tue Sep 4 18:59:25 CEST 2007


On Tuesday 04 September 2007, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> Well...  not speaking for Giles, but the drivers I've seen for closed
> chipsets have generally involved a thin open-source wrapper around a
> closed binary driver.  Letting you write a real open-source driver
> while demanding NDA to see the specs you're writing the driver to
> seems odd on their part (but much better than the norm!).

Unusual but not unprecedented. Psion did the same for some of the 
documentation on the hardware for the Series 5 when linux was being ported to 
it. 





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