[Etherboot-developers] Question on supporting nVidia .o driver

[Andy G. <an...@wa...>]

Over at the xbox linux project there is some discussion today about 
supporting the nVidia inside the xbox (and used on nForce motherboards) 
Ethernet controller with an etherboot driver.

The issue is that nVidia supply a .o file containing all the goodies; it 
  is believed to be quite possible to fake up something using the kernel 
network API to use this and make it believe it was a kernel driver.

The main question is, what's the prevailing opinion about using a .o in 
this way GPL-wise.  It has been suggested that we'll be okay if we do 
not distribute the .o but make our GPL project consist of everything 
but.  (Because we are running on the xbox only, portability is not a 
concern).

In addition, has anyone made such a fake kernel API shell before?  Has 
anyone looked at supporting nForce motherboards?

-Andy