On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:00 AM, bofh <
goodb0fh@...> wrote:
>
> I went back and re-read the press release. It seems to be much worse than
> first glance. "[we hired X to] helps enhance regulatory compliance in the
> Linux kernel." This probably means locking down the driver even more.
> Pretty sad.
>
> I'm hoping VIA's release of documentation is far better.
>
not too sure about that!!!
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=via_bluff&num=1http://linux.via.com.tw/ - the damned bastards released nothing but binary
drivers. And not even theirs at that!! (look at the filename -
"via-unichrome".... This is a vendor, pretending to be offer open source
support - but only pointing to/pushing u back to the reverse engineering
efforts which are in need of the *real* support from VIA in the first
place!!!).
-jf
--
In the meantime, here is your PSA:
"It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not
help."
-- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation
http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228
