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Originally posted by brent View PostThis is such a silly argument. Nvidia's blob and nouveau cannot coexist, so it only makes sense to offer an option for disabling nouveau. This option simply blacklists nouveau, so what's the big deal?
The fact that their only contribution to the Linux driver for Nvidia hardware has been a command-line switch to blacklist it makes this a very good place to point this out -- again.
That's all. Don't get distracted by RealNC's circular schizo-arguments with himself. I only posted a one-post-rant before he came here with his merry-go-round lala-world.
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Originally posted by RealNC View PostYour argument is one-sided. Because people's experience would also get better if Linux would be more friendly to proprietary drivers.
The Linux kernel people, on the other hand, don't have any access to documentation so people are effectively not able to run open-source drivers on their Nvidia hardware (though the nouveau guys are really changing this, and fast).
The situation is one-sided by nature.
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Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View Postdmabuf is not even finished yet and the licensing has not been fully decided, AFAICR
also, taking a quick look at the code for kernel 3.5; http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source...base/dma-buf.c
they are using EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, which to me says (or would appear) that the decision has been made and Nvidia won't be permitted to use that.
anyway, i am curious that if it hasn't been decided, then how come all of the code appears this way?
We went through something similar with the RT-patch, where he had to initially change these symbols in the kernel in a few places, before a new patch surfaced that got around it. ~ So my question would be (if i am not missing anything) how is nvidia going to use dmubuf when these symbols are EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL???
it would seem to me to be a 'showstopper' as far as i can tell.Last edited by ninez; 16 August 2012, 05:03 PM.
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