Re: [ECOS] ecos - linux driver questions

[Jani Monoses <jani at iv dot ro>]

On 08 May 2003 16:13:05 +0200
Bob Koninckx <bob.koninckx@mech.kuleuven.ac.be> wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 16:02, Gary D. Thomas wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 09:47, Florian Mume wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I'm a student of electrical engineering and quite a newby in the
> > > great ecos world. I'm working on an Atmel AT91 custom board and
> > > got ecos already running :-)
> > > Could somebody please let me know, if there is a possibility to
> > > get a Wireless LAN PCMCIA card (perferable Orinoco) working in an
> > > Arm environment? If so, how complicated would it be?
> > > Is it in general possible to "port" a driver from Linux to eCos?
> > > 
> > 
> > In theory, writing a network driver for eCos is pretty straight
> > forward.  The problem comes in the details, and these wireless
> > cards abound in them.  
> > 
> > You may be able to take ideas and inspiration from Linux drivers,
> > but sadly you can't copy code since the licenses are not compatible.
> 
> 
> Does this also apply to a student doing some project work that will
> never leave the lab of his university ? I can understand how the GPL
> prevents the integration of linux code into the ecos tree but not how
> it could prevent an individual to use linux code into his private
> project.

Would code based on BSD or MPL licensed drivers be more acceptable in
ecos? For instance wlan-ng which supports PRISM chipsets is I think dual
GPL - MPL.

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