porting from SGIs to Linux?

[Adam Jackson]

On Tuesday 18 January 2005 19:36, Jeremy Kolb wrote:
> Adam Jackson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 18 January 2005 19:08, Jeremy Kolb wrote:
> >>You are assuming that a loaded module is part of the kernel then.
> >
> > You're saying a loaded module is part of userspace?  It's one or the
> > other.
> >
> > - ajax
>
> Intuitively I would say that it's definitely in kernel-space but it
> would seem to me that the kernel isn't the only thing allowed in
> kernel-space.  I don't see how including a proprietary module (that's
> also separate from the main kernel tree) would invalidate the
> nonproprietariness of the rest of the kernel.

"Intuitively" rarely has anything to do with "legally" in the USSA.  Including 
a closed driver in an open kernel does not make the open bits less open, but 
it does make the aggregate non-open.

- ajax (really done being off-topic now, i promise)
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