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From: Baho Utot on 5 Apr 2008 08:17
On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:06:17 +0200, Aragorn wrote:

[putolin]

> Dell often uses proprietarized hardware, though. Their RAID controllers
> for instance are based upon Adaptec cards - they do however use the
> stock Adaptec drivers. We've got experience with a couple of boxes like
> that over at our organization.

Are you sure the hardware is Dell proprietary?

I have some Live sound cards, two Dell and one Creative, they look
identical to the Creative card but under lspci they have different
hardware device numbers but as far as I can tell use the same kernel
driver. Could it be that only the hardware device number is changed for
the hardware? But it is "basically/or is" the same?

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Tayo'y Mga Pinoy
From: Aragorn on 5 Apr 2008 08:51
Baho Utot wrote:

> On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:06:17 +0200, Aragorn wrote:
>
> [putolin]
>
>> Dell often uses proprietarized hardware, though. Their RAID controllers
>> for instance are based upon Adaptec cards - they do however use the
>> stock Adaptec drivers. We've got experience with a couple of boxes like
>> that over at our organization.
>
> Are you sure the hardware is Dell proprietary?
>
> I have some Live sound cards, two Dell and one Creative, they look
> identical to the Creative card but under lspci they have different
> hardware device numbers but as far as I can tell use the same kernel
> driver. Could it be that only the hardware device number is changed for
> the hardware? But it is "basically/or is" the same?

I believe it is something of that nature, yes. However, there are some
drivers in the kernel tree - I can't tell from memory which ones - that
have "branded" extensions.

The kernel does have drivers for those too, though, so I suppose those
drivers must be GPL'ed then, or Linus would not include them. ;-)

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Aragorn
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)
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