On Mar 29, 2006, at 10:07 AM, Adam Stroud wrote:
What about drivers that are not part of the ports collection?
Nvidia I can understand because the code is not in the kernel to
the best of my knowledge. If you want *the* nvidia driver, you
install the port. What about drivers for somethi
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 09:45:52AM -0500, Adam Stroud wrote:
> I have been using both Open and Free BSD for a few years. Here is a
> Quick question about FreeBSD and the use of third party closed source
> binary drivers (known as "blob" to the OpenBSD community). I was just
> doing some readin
Adam Stroud wrote:
> What about drivers that are not part of the ports collection?
That generally implies that the drivers are under such a proprietary license
term that the binary images cannot be redistributed:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/porting-restrictio
What about drivers that are not part of the ports collection? Nvidia I
can understand because the code is not in the kernel to the best of my
knowledge. If you want *the* nvidia driver, you install the port. What
about drivers for something like raid controllers that would exist
solely in th
On Mar 29, 2006, at 9:45 AM, Adam Stroud wrote:
I have been using both Open and Free BSD for a few years. Here is
a Quick question about FreeBSD and the use of third party closed
source binary drivers (known as "blob" to the OpenBSD community).
I was just doing some reading on the OpenBS
Adam Stroud wrote:
I have been using both Open and Free BSD for a few years. Here is a
Quick question about FreeBSD and the use of third party closed source
binary drivers (known as "blob" to the OpenBSD community). I was just
doing some reading on the OpenBSD website about their views on thi
I have been using both Open and Free BSD for a few years. Here is a
Quick question about FreeBSD and the use of third party closed source
binary drivers (known as "blob" to the OpenBSD community). I was just
doing some reading on the OpenBSD website about their views on third
closed source dr
