From: valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu
To: Chris Jones <chrisjones@spin.net.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, david@lang.hm
Subject: Re: Gaming and the kernel
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2012 00:12:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <168124.1344053522@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 04 Aug 2012 10:51:49 +1000." <501C7225.5060405@spin.net.au>
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On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 10:51:49 +1000, Chris Jones said:
> documentation, hopefully things will work out. And this might actually
> be the kick in the rear-end that AMD and NVIDIA need to get into gear
> and start developer some useful and Windows equivalent hardware drivers
> for ALL their cards for Linux.
The truly ironic part is that the current NVidia binary blob driver that
everybody dislikes so much *IS* the "Windows equivalent" driver (in
fact, it's the same driver, with a Linux shim layer wrapped around it).
You can flame them for having a non-GPL binary blob, but you can't flame
NVidia for not having equivalent drivers...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-04 4:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-03 22:12 Gaming and the kernel Chris Jones
2012-08-03 22:46 ` Cruz Julian Bishop
[not found] ` <501C545C.40601@gmail.com>
2012-08-04 0:25 ` Chris Jones
2012-08-04 0:32 ` david
2012-08-04 0:51 ` Chris Jones
2012-08-04 4:12 ` valdis.kletnieks [this message]
2012-08-04 4:49 ` Mike Galbraith
2012-08-04 5:38 ` Mike Galbraith
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