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From: <ke...@us...> - 2002-08-23 09:55:13
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>"Note that there is no conflict when a GPLed utility is invoked by a >proprietary program or vice versa via a system () call." Can we >modprobe/insmod from a system call to load the module? That would bring us >to this: "However, a free program that depends on a proprietary program for >its operation can not be included in a free operating system, because the >proprietary program would also have to be distributed with the system." >Hence the not distributing the .o file idea. How about using software interrupts to interface to nvidia.o, does that count? >And are we just looking at getting a replacement driver from the etherboot Etherboot has no nvidia driver to speak of. And an Etherboot driver is not a replacement for a Linux driver. This whole thread was started by somebody who thought nvidia.o could be called from Etherboot for netbooting. Whether you implement disk booting in addition is not Etherboot's concern, at least. |
