On Jun 18, 2008, Anders Karlsson <anders(a)trudheim.co.uk> wrote:
* Alexandre Oliva <aoliva(a)redhat.com> [20080618 21:50]:
> On Jun 16, 2008, Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede(a)hhs.nl> wrote:
[snip]
> > Not being able to ever change the firmware is good,
>
> It's not. Being Free to change it would undoubtedly be better.
So what's stopping you?
Lack of information.
Go buy the programming manual for the chip,
It's not available.
or discuss with the chip manufacturer to get the specs
They don't want to provide them.
as there may not be a programming manual along the line what you
find with say an Intel CPU.
There is, but they choose to keep it to themselves.
As the firmware may be written from scratch in hex, that may be your
*only* option.
That's fine, as long as the firmware *is* written from scratch in hex.
If not, the vendors are artificially and unethically depriving me of
information.
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