Re: [future of drivers?] a proposal for binary drivers.

Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-03-15T00:50:57Z

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On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 00:06:48 +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch said:
> On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 15:33 +0530, Anshuman Gholap wrote:
> [...]
> > into installing it) , he knowing me as a linux person will keep
> > bugging me, when i tell him to install a kernel source compile it to
> > allow 16k stack, install ndiswrapper and load the windows driver and
>
> And you seriously think that $COMPANY will rewrite their driver to work
> with 4K-stacks (which seems to me to be an absolute requirement ATM)?

>From the NVidia drivers changelog:

2004-6-30 version 1.0-6106

* Added support for GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language).

* Added support for GL_EXT_pixel_buffer_object.

* Added support for 4kstack kernels.

Looks like they managed to do that quite some time ago - in fact, before
some parts of the *in-kernel* code were totally cleaned up....

So yes, I *do* expect $COMPANY to re-write their driver to support 4K stacks. ;)

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