I would have given up long before the point this person got to. This is pretty damn amazing, and could gain a little bit of life from these old, closed, binary

I would have given up long before the point this person got to. This is pretty damn amazing, and could gain a little bit of life from these old, closed, binary blob, everything in software devices. Tons of kudos for doing this. On a side note, I wish there was a more standard way to deal with Linux kernel modules. The ABI incompatibility leaves a ton of dead old hardware out there for non-maintained kernels. In an ideal world without tons of binary blobs and .o files out there; this wouldn't matter. You could recompile everything for the latest version. You might have to fill in some missing symbols or swap out deprecated functions, but it'd be considerably easier than this. That was the ideal behind open source; that we could always be able to figure out how our stuff works, and it seems like today we only have open source middle ware, and so much close source stuff build on top of open source stuff.