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Compressed? Fine.Compressed? Fine.Posted Aug 29, 2004 1:47 UTC (Sun) by lutchann (subscriber, #8872)In reply to: Compressed? Fine. by ncm Parent article: Linux loses the Philips webcam driver
The only binary-only code in the 9.x drivers was a .a file with the decompressor routines. This was linked against some glue code to make pwcx.ko for 2.6 kernels and pwcx.o for 2.4 kernels, but there was also the option to compile the .a file into user-space code and do the "proprietary" decompression in user space. Then you could get the high resolutions with no binary-only code in the kernel.
This is not a technical issue at all; it is a disagreement between Nemosoft and the rest of the community about the tolerance for binary-only modules in the kernel.
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