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Wow?Wow?Posted Sep 29, 2008 13:08 UTC (Mon) by cortana (subscriber, #24596)In reply to: Wow? by ledow Parent article: Atheros releases ath5k HAL code
Uploading firmware to a bit of hardware does not set the taint flag, at least in my experience (p54, iwl3945 drivers).
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Wow? Posted Sep 29, 2008 13:38 UTC (Mon) by ledow (guest, #11753) [Link]
No, but using a driver that combines intimately with a non-GPL piece of software does. E.g. ath_hal, which is what this article discusses. ath_hal taints my kernel. As would the nvidia and ATI drivers that do the same trick (GPL wrapper around a blob).
Now that a free alternative to ath_hal exists, I can get non-tainting of my kernel. Which means I don't have to unload ath_hal in order to report bugs.
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