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Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 17:20:55 -0300 From: "Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@....utfsm.cl> To: davids@...master.com cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, "Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Binary Drivers David Schwartz <davids@...master.com> wrote: [...] > Now, let's try it another way: Are they allowed to sell a car that > incorporates a computer that uses a trade-secret algorithm for controlling > the fuel injection to get 20 more horsepower and 5% better mileage if it's > impossible to *start* the car without knowing that algorithm? It is done regularly. Current cars control the fuel injection etc via an onboard computer, without this control the engine just won't start. Did you get the specs for the exact fuel control algorithm with your car? Should you be able to fool around with that, thus violating emission control measures (this would damage not only you, but everybody)? Almost everything around you is controlled by a uP nowadays (it is much cheaper/preciser to control e.g. the washing machine that way than via the customary rotating wheels with notches). Did you get the specs for that? Can you get them? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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