encrypted drivers/kernel?

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All - following up on a post in AndroidForums which referenced a comment on the root story here. The comment (from Gee):

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I remember hearing that the drivers/kernel are either encrypted, unusable, or simply unavailable. Meaning that while you can root the Galaxy S and put custom ROMs, you still can’t put unofficial ROMs (like Cyanogen) on it without expecting to break a lot of functionality.

That means that you WONT be putting Froyo on it until Samsung officially releases the ROM which can then later be modified. And if Samsung moves away from the Galaxy S after that update, you’ll never see a fully functioning Gingerbread ROM. Ever. That’s a hard pill for me to swallow.

Can anyone shed further light on this?

Sounds counter productive. I heard they will be releasing source code. Would be odd if they kept the rest under wraps or took extra measures to prevent access....

Methinks this is definitely worth further investigation. Need some experienced SGS modders to find this thread...

From what I have seen, the drivers are provided in binary form only (which is basically the same as how drivers are provided on Windows). So long as there isn't some code written into the drivers that would prohibit their running on non-official ROMs, there shouldn't be any problem using the drivers in custom ROMs.

I downloaded the entire sourcecode from the samsung website. Its a 150MB zip file and everything is in there in binary form. It must be compiled. I'm certainly not a linux or android dev but it seems like thats what you need. There's even readme.txt files in there to tell you how to build new versions of software.

I'm wondering how long it'll take for someone to put out a custom ROM for the captivate based on 2.2?