Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 08:42:42 +0530 From: "Joseph Koshy" <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> To: "Sam Smith" <S@msmith.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Michal Mertl <mime@traveller.cz>, Christian Zander <czander@nvidia.com> Subject: Re: NVIDIA FreeBSD kernel feature requests Message-ID: <84dead720607022012g7a49ff81k3fa510c20737b6be@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.64.0607022340500.2397@sebastian.foriru.co.uk> References: <20060629111231.GA692@wolf.nvidia.com> <20060702114950.bf39e312.mmendez@energyhq.be> <1151877095.1085.19.camel@genius.i.cz> <Pine.BSO.4.64.0607022340500.2397@sebastian.foriru.co.uk>
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> That's their commercial decision - as a result, if you > their cards, you may end up with a particularly expensive > paperweight the day they decide you need to buy a new card > for your new version of freebsd which has different > internals; or someone finds bugs in their drivers that > they wont fix. This is the relatively benign scenario. In the less benign one that "convenient" binary driver that you loaded into the kernel would contain a silent security vulnerability. Google for "Sony DRM rootkit". > it's not like there aren't plenty of other > vendors who are more willing to help the developers with > documentation in an open manner. True. -- FreeBSD Volunteer, http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy
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