Re: Linux Incompatibility List

Eric W. Biederman
2004-08-23T06:34:15Z

Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> 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