porting from SGIs to Linux?
Jon Trulson
jon at radscan.com
Wed Jan 19 16:34:15 PST 2005
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, 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.
>
Ok, last post from me on this topic:
What about an OpenMotif application running on Linux, but being
displayed to a remote HPUX workstation. Suddenly that would be illegal?
That makes no sense to me.
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