Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 2 Dec 2003 15:13:09 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4 future |
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On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 02:39:52PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > the reasons behind the reasoning. However, that doesn't help us pour > schmucks out here in la-la land trying to make the most recent nvidia > module work with the latest kernel on our now elderly gforce2's. I'd > like to have some OpenGL support for instance, but for everything > else, nv is probably 100x more stable than the nvidia binary. So we > run nv. Maybe someday nvidia will get baptised, but *I'm* not > counting on it. > > Its not your emails (as Linus) to nvidia that will fix that, but a > concerted effort, emailing them for a resolution from everyone who > owns one of their products _might_ eventually make a difference. > OTOH, they're going to listen to their IP lawyers & not us. so...
Well, the easiest way to convince nVidia is to own someone else's product, that does support Linux ;-)
Right now -- for the bleeding edge 3D hardware -- hardware makers are across-the-board closed source AFAIK. ATI used to be open source, but their new "microcode JIT" stuff for the latest h/w isn't
Until a volume 3D h/w maker goes open source and gives Linux users a market to buy into, it's pretty much closed source moving forward :(
Jeff
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