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Neil Williams wrote: > > If someone could just figure out how to turn binaries into source code > as easily as source code is turned into binaries, proprietary code would > disappear overnight. Dream on.... My Laptops "perceived" ACPI problem was not too hard to fix in the disassembled code. But I don't have the rights to share the fixed code. So code is no less proprietary just because you have, or can recreate, usable source. I think the compiler/assembler for odd devices Robin mentioned is not a big issue. Writing compilers is a well polished art amongst folks that do that sort of thing for fun or profit. I think there is less scope if you don't have any source code you need to compile on the platform, or lack the details specs needed to create it. Compiling the kernel to support Legacy Megaraid however is defeating me this evening. Grr - too many LKML relate to this topic - sigh. Simon
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