[ILUG] games.linux.ie

[Dave Airlie]

>
> Hmm... I suppose so, but that's not an "application", it's a device driver
> ;)
>
> However just after I sent my prev mail, it occurred to me that the GPL is
> actually unusable when you're developing for a really low-level embedded
> system; ie. one where everything that goes on is effectively running as
> part of the kernel and there's no concept of "processes" etc.

yup thats where I'm talking about .. where you have no file systems, or
anything like that to load 'applications' from, you just have one image
and it does it all.. illegal to put prop stuff in the image and GPL even
if you are just using the GPL code through well-defined interfaces and the
like ..

 >
> I guess that's what you mean too.
>
> Would be worth checking the Cygnus site, as they do low-level embedded
> products along those lines.

I've been using Redhat eCos for 12 months now .. it's under another
license (like BSD), it works well if not a bit immature on some fronts ..
but you can't use Linux bits with it as it isn't under GPL... so lots of
stuff in it comes from OpenBSD (the TCP/IP stack),

Dave.


>
> --j.
>
>
> > Paul J Collins wrote:
> > >
> > > >>>>> "DA" == Dave Airlie <airlied at csn.ul.ie> writes:
> > >
> > >     DA> the only thing I dislike about GPL is in embedded systeems,
> > >     DA> yuo cannot use a GPL OS linked agsinst a non-GPL app (which it
> > >     DA> may be illegal to GPL , codecs... etc..)
> > >
> > > I am utterly ignorant of embedded systems, but since when do
> > > applications "link to" OSes at all?
> > >
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