Re: HD-DVD player

On 15-May-06, at 11:41 PM, Dylan Griffiths wrote:
> Assuming a stock kernel with not too much secret sauce (since it'd
> be a GPL violation if it was shipped linked to a binary-only
> module!), you could try and "match" the interface, or use a shim
> loader (ala how some Wireless cards work on Linux) to drive the HD-
> DVD drive, and skip the sutpid HDCP shit.

It's not that simple. If it were, nVidia and ATi wouldn't be able to
have their binary-only drivers. Linksys wouldn't be able to use
their Broadcom drivers on the WRT54G. As far as I know, both of
those still happen quite regularly.

http://kerneltrap.org/node/1735
Received on Tue May 16 06:27:48 2006