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Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem



On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:14:02AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> I bet that, with some of these firmware blobs, we could
> reverse-engineer and "clean room" clone them in a country with
> permissive reverse engineering laws.  At that point, we'd have
> something that was definitely free.
> 
> Anyone interested in trying?

It's on my todo list, but I have a couple of binary-only drivers to
tackle first.

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