Originally posted by asdx
I'm also not convinced that the comment you are responding to had any stance against OSS drivers. I assume that he was being pragmatic like most of us who are using the blobs (but test both), blobs are annoying - but in reality, until the OSS drivers can provide the same performance + feature set - they are a very hard sell and that doesn't even address the fact that some users REQUIRE the blobs, since the OSS drivers can't deliver in many cases.
Originally posted by asdx
as for specs, it would be great if all companies would do that. but i wouldn't hold my breathe having the expectation that all companies will do it. Some will, some won't. - Nvidia being one unlikely to do so (and may even have good reason not to do so, not that i am claiming that is the case). I personally liked the one developer's idea of using nouveau in the kernel / talk to GPU and have nvidia move the rest (of their components) outside, while adapting it all to work with nouveau. It would solve all of the kernel GPL issues and seems like a decent compromise - it would probably even help nouveau's development, as well.
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