On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Markus Rechberger <mrechber...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Steven Toth <st...@linuxtv.org> wrote: >>> There's no need for Micronas nor Trident to provide such kerneldrivers >>> as long as the userland driver is available. It's also much easier to >>> install than the earlier versions. >> >> Markus, This is your typical self-serving nonsense and it only serves to >> confuse the non-technical Linux community. Please don't try to spread your >> non-GPL tree and userland rhetoric on the list as it's not welcome. >> > > it serves the question about linux support for those devices, if more > information is needed about it I can be contacted directly of course. >
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0802.0/0015.html even Greg Kroah adviced to use for example USBFS for closed source drivers, and even pointed out to the usb mailinglist for that a while ago, so I'd say it has a valid reason to coexist now. best regards, Markus >> This mailing list is dedicated the v4l-dvb GPL source code trees and >> associated applications. As far as I'm concerned your opinion is not >> welcome. Please keep all conversation related to promoting and developing >> the main repositories please. >> > > maybe put up a policy, and also list devices which require a closed > source firmware which are basically alot linux supported devices > already. I'm mainly considered about having support for that, if you > don't like the way it is supported try to start to reverse engineer it > and don't bother about it. > >> Peter, Devin is correct. If a vendor will not provide a driver then vote >> with your pocket and buy another product. If you do anything else you're not >> helping the rest of the community. >> > > best regards, > Markus > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
