Comment 6 for bug 127610

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hangy (hangy) wrote :

xtknight wrote:
> I'm not sure, actually. KQEMU used to be propriety but it is now under the GPL license, so that would be a possibility.

As KQEMU is GPLed now, there should be no problem to get it into linux-ubuntu-modules-*-generic or something in my opinion.

Stefano Rivera wrote:
> Hi Walter (2007.11.01_21:20:12_+0200)
>> obviously kqemu-source should continue to be provided as non-standard kernels
>> may not have prebuilt modules.
> That doesn't apply to other modules prebuild by ubuntu.

I think it does. For example, the "nvidia" module exists pre-compiled in linux-restricted-modules-generic and can be compiled from source from nvidia-kernel-source/nvidia-legacy-kernel-source/nvidia-new-kernel-source.