On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 10:29:40AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

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We're not going to add any kind of loader for binry blobs into kernel
space, sorry.  Don't even bother wasting your time on this.

It would not be a binary blob but software properly released under GPL.
The current plan is for the shell to enforce GPL requirement on the
plugin code, similar to what module loaded does for regular kernel
modules.

The mechanism described in the document is loading a binary blob
coded to an abstract API.

That's something entirely different from having normal modules for
the Virtual Functions, which we already have for various pieces of
hardware anyway.