I've been reading the posts...FOSS vs. BLOBS...and being all for GNU, commits to the kernel by vendors to support proprietary drivers look like HEX address not C. But when your source desktop accepts the BLOB there isn't a really easy way to get it out. Which must mean other programs start to point to it as the system emerges. Illustrating GNU/Cancer or at least portage thinks so. BUT... and here's the devils advocate for it. Open Sources Code for power managment...I mean seriously. If every expoilt for X generation GPU is found out. Remote access granted - root access gained. Crack the volts or clocks on the GPU...kill the fan. BOOM... sooooooo ... this is why I believe the Linux drivers are always in the backfield. Why manufactures are reluctant to assist and call Gallium reverse engineering. Fermi is full of hw errata that almost kept the chipset off the streets. The AMD / ATI acquisition couldn't be without discovering the same in older GPU reference designs. So I went with closed source...and have the GNU/CANCER, lol.
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