[Olsr-users] Olsr-users Digest, Vol 6, Issue 1

[Aaron Kaplan]

hm, well at that time there apparently was only that one SoC which  
could continue to mesh layer 2 frames while everything else was  
suspended (CPU, RAM, flash hard disc, ...).

I guess nowadays we can find more of these chips. However, I am not  
(yet) an expert in that area - if anybody on the list is - please  
share! :)

a.


On Nov 27, 2007, at 10:31 AM, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:

> On Die, 2007-11-27 at 06:07 +0100, Aaron Kaplan wrote:
>>
>> well to be fair, it was nobodies idea at MIT/OLPC to keep it closed .
>> It was AFAIK the only chipset which was usable and they were bound by
>
> Well, since there is more than chipset on the planet, what ruled  
> out all
> the other ones, especially the ones with really open-sourced drivers
> like (IIRC) PrismII and Atheros?
>
>> marvell's NDA. See: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/46  (heck, I already
>
> Well, then don't sign it. The question is: What was even more  
> important
> for an "open" product (which one reads everywhere so it is at least by
> the marketing departments) than the openness of all of the source?
>
> And since we have an example of closed-source on that product, it  
> is not
> easy to disallow others.
>
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