Re: Kernel Driver Statement

2008-06-26 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday, 25 בJune 2008, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > BTW: any news from VIA? They keep annoncing of big code dumps and it > seems that nothing really come out of this. Hehe, they announced they have released some 15,000 lines of code, that's a very impressive number... Looks like they tried hard t

Re: Kernel Driver Statement

2008-06-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 01:55:57PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > > > Some might find interest in this ynet item from today: > > http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3560153,00.html Amazing. Aparantly Intel and NVidia have a total market share of around 150% . And the background for it is we

Re: Kernel Driver Statement

2008-06-25 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I read it, and I belive that NVidia will never open source their driver, for at least 1 crucial reason: With their drivers, you can do a simple tweak and you can make a low cost Geforce 8XXX (for example) to a high end Quadro. You can do it easily today on Windows (no hardware modifications requi