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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] Asus eee
From:       John Layt <johnlayt () yahoo ! com ! au>
Date:       2007-11-15 19:14:11
Message-ID: 200711151914.11875.johnlayt () yahoo ! com ! au
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On Thursday 15 November 2007, G T Smith wrote:
> Dave Howorth wrote:
> > It's late and I'm probably confused but if there's a driver for one
> > Linux version doesn't it work for all?  GPL and all that. Or at least
> > ABI compatibility.
> >
> > Curiously, Dave
>
> I would suspect the modules concerned to be closed source and compiled
> against particular versions of the libraries with particular versions of
> compiler. And we have all come across the situation of library or
> compiler mismatch that means that something will not work even it it is
> using the same API.
>

The source s available, but are new that they're apparently only in the 
development versions of the drivers, they just haven't been released yet.

It's a bit of a buzz to look in the manual for a new laptop and see the GPL in 
all its glory :-)  Then to boot straight from the box into Linux...

John.

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