Re: kernel-libre (hopefully 100% Free) for Fedora 8 and rawhide

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

> otherwise it wouldn't be there in the first place.  But there's a big
> difference between "we don't know, it was like this when we got here"
> to "we know it, but we're not going to tell you".

It is often not that simple. Eg the 3dfx has a register whose value is a
magic number determined by the silicon propogation properties as *measured*
after fab.