Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> One Laptop (per Child) Update
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> | In the One Laptop project we actually have two kernels. The first
> | kernel, found in the BIOS, is based on LinuxBIOS. The second is a
> | kernel that?s built from Red Hat?s sources, and aside from a few
> | patches and a different configuration, is a pretty standard OS
> | kernel.
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> http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=222
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> Interesting comments from Theo de Raadt...
LOL! "The Rat" strikes again ... and inserts foot into mouth.
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| The Rat wrote:
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| So while OpenBSD is increasingly reverse engineering more and more
| chips, and pressuring more and more vendors to get chipset
| documentation and firmware files released (ie. at least distribution
| rights), along comes Red Hat and MIT associated people, and they make
| AGREEMENTS with one of the last three secretive wireless chipset
| vendors! And now Marvell can become even more secretive, and wonât
| give us any information or a redistribution license for the firmware.
| Heck, Marvell wonât even talk to us now.
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| blizzard wrote:
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| The code for the driver for the Marvell chip is available under the
| GPL and can be found in our recent kernels. (Itâs not upstream yet.)
| We will have an agreement with Marvell that will allow for
| redistribution of the firmware.
| ######
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Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) on sky, running kernel 2.6.16-1.2133_FC5
12:00:35 up 103 days, 12:17, 3 users, load average: 0.19, 0.05, 0.01
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