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[ts-7000] Re: Using EmbeddedARm Kernel Module with 2.6.x User Dev Kernel

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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: Using EmbeddedARm Kernel Module with 2.6.x User Dev Kernel
From: "j.chitte" <>
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:51:16 -0000
--- In  Jason Stahls <> wrote:
>
> wildpossumboy wrote:
> >  I reconfigure & build a newer 2.6.x kernel release (not the ts-kernel), 
> > will copying the EmbeddedARM supplied kernel modules to the correct 
> > /lib/2.6.x/modules tree and, simply issuing a "modprobe ts..." get them to 
> > load and work correctly?
> 
> This is almost never a good idea...  You can disable module version 
> checking when you compile the kernel, but you never know what basic 
> system structs may have changed.  If you check the TS FTP site, or in 
> their supplied source you should find the source for their modules there 
> I think...  Also check back in the archives for a patchset for your kernel
> 
> Jason Stahls
>

Sadly this a severe limitation of closed source modules and where TS breaks 
with it's claim to fully embrace the open source model.

It's not the 95% of available source code that make a product open source. It's 
the 5% that makes it proprietary dependant.

Like kosha food, you don't get far offering 95% kosha, it's not kosha.

Since so much of the functionality of these boards relies on the FPGA, you need 
to realise when buying and investing time in these newer models that they are 
not open source solutions.







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