Whats with the petty Open Source Pureness that has killed PWCX

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Tue Aug 31 18:30:38 UTC 2004


On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:29:43PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> The discussion of the binary has been misleading as well. It isn't primarily
> a decompressor, but rather an interpolator. The ccd is 120x160 pixels
> and the binary part interperolates to return 480x640 pixels. I think it
> is pretty questionable that that function should be done in kernel space.

Its a 640x480 detector according to the component data sheet so I wouldn't
read much into random rumour. It looks like the matter is now resolved
anyway and we may also get open user space decode libraries





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