From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267443AbUHWGeP (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2004 02:34:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267454AbUHWGeP (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2004 02:34:15 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:40617 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267443AbUHWGeF (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2004 02:34:05 -0400 To: Dave Jones Cc: Alan Cox , Lee Revell , Wakko Warner , "David N. Welton" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux Incompatibility List References: <87r7q0th2n.fsf@dedasys.com> <20040821201632.GA7622@digitasaru.net> <20040821202058.GA9218@animx.eu.org> <1093120274.854.145.camel@krustophenia.net> <1093173014.24344.35.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040822124200.GA7556@redhat.com> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 23 Aug 2004 00:31:58 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20040822124200.GA7556@redhat.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dave Jones writes: > On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 12:10:15PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Sad, 2004-08-21 at 21:31, Lee Revell wrote: > > > Nvidia. AFAIK all nvidia Linux drivers are either binary-only or > > > reverse-engineered. > > > > The X 2D driver isnt too easy to read (although with the rivatv notes > > its quite easy). That was written by Nvidia employees and provided by > > Nvidia. > > As was the nForce AGP GART driver. Some folks in NVidia are trying > to do the right thing wherever possible. This will be an interesting space to watch I guess. Tyan is working on an LinuxBIOS to Nvidia's most recent Opteron chipset as well. And Nvidia seems to be helping. Eric