On Monday 07 November 2005 13:18, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> On ב', 2005-11-07 at 11:49 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > Check:
> >
> > http://www.petitiononline.com/nvfoss/petition.html
> >
> > for a petition I set up for Nvidia to release open-source drivers.
> >
> > Please sign it, and help spread
On Monday 07 November 2005 12:38, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 11:49:51AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > Check:
> >
> > http://www.petitiononline.com/nvfoss/petition.html
> >
> > for a petition I set up for Nvidia to release open-source drivers.
> >
> > Please sign it, and hel
I'm not saying that nVidia is perfect. Far from it.
I am saying that we should try to get the get a better closed source
driver with a bigger open source glue, so you can use attach the GF256
capable 4 year old driver working with a newer kernel, simply by
modifying the open-source part of the driv
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 04:07:13PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> In short, in my view, hopefully someone, somehow will find a way in-
> between * without starting yet another holly war (against nVidia) which
> we have no hope to win. (It's much easier for them to stop supporting
> Linux/BSD comple
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 15:12 +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:52:43PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
>
> > Before we go into an all out war, may I suggest what I suggested to the
> > said nVidia dev?
> > Open -all- the generic code (AKA kernel interfaces, etc) creating a
> >
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:52:43PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> Before we go into an all out war, may I suggest what I suggested to the
> said nVidia dev?
> Open -all- the generic code (AKA kernel interfaces, etc) creating a
> fully open driver and push all the NDA'ed stuff into a closed source
>
Before we go into an all out war, may I suggest what I suggested to the
said nVidia dev?
Open -all- the generic code (AKA kernel interfaces, etc) creating a
fully open driver and push all the NDA'ed stuff into a closed source
pluggable module. (Which they already have - the nVidia libGL library)
If
On Monday 07 November 2005 12:40, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 12:19:46PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > With a little bit of luck, the FOSS community may persuade nVidia to
> > release bigger chunks of their driver. (Currently only a small part of
> > the drivers, the kernel "
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 01:20:56PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> I understand your point.
> But as it stands, I rather have half open driver that works and gives me
> Windows-like OpenGL performance then have a fully-open driver that
> doesn't support acceleration (nv) or worse, nothing at all.
T
On ב', 2005-11-07 at 11:49 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Check:
>
> http://www.petitiononline.com/nvfoss/petition.html
>
> for a petition I set up for Nvidia to release open-source drivers.
>
> Please sign it, and help spread the word.
This puts it better than plain words:
http://www.penny-arcade
I understand your point.
But as it stands, I rather have half open driver that works and gives me
Windows-like OpenGL performance then have a fully-open driver that
doesn't support acceleration (nv) or worse, nothing at all.
Gilboa
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 12:40 +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> On Mo
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 11:49:51AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Check:
>
> http://www.petitiononline.com/nvfoss/petition.html
>
> for a petition I set up for Nvidia to release open-source drivers.
>
> Please sign it, and help spread the word.
How many people read it and commented before spreadin
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 12:19:46PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> With a little bit of luck, the FOSS community may persuade nVidia to
> release bigger chunks of their driver. (Currently only a small part of
> the drivers, the kernel "glue" is semi-open and can be modified)
Not intending to start
nVidia already contributes to the open source nv driver.
A couple of months ago I spoke to the lead nVidia Linux driver developer
about opening their driver, and he claims that even if nVidia wanted to,
it is bound by a number of NDAs that prevents it from releasing a full
open source driver.
With
Check:
http://www.petitiononline.com/nvfoss/petition.html
for a petition I set up for Nvidia to release open-source drivers.
Please sign it, and help spread the word.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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