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start here: Software Defined Radio receivers

start here: Software Defined Radio receivers

Posted Jul 20, 2007 12:58 UTC (Fri) by hazelsct (guest, #3659)
In reply to: start here: Software Defined Radio receivers by ilmari
Parent article: A green light for free-software defined radio?

Indeed. The new Intel drivers work around this by means of a small free in-kernel driver (using DeviceScape no less) with a user-space binary blob.

As long as it is legal to use proprietary user-space software with free operating system kernels and libraries (which I'm pretty sure GPL v3 does not prevent), this approach will work fine for software-defined radio.


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