Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 23:27:42 -0700 From: "Kip Macy" <kip.macy@gmail.com> To: "Robert Watson" <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: Sam Smith <S@msmith.net>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Michal Mertl <mime@traveller.cz>, Christian Zander <czander@nvidia.com> Subject: Re: NVIDIA FreeBSD kernel feature requests Message-ID: <b1fa29170607032327i1e83c3a0s267cd70ea0b9f09d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060703103420.B26325@fledge.watson.org> 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> <20060703103420.B26325@fledge.watson.org>
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> Producing a driver for a GPU card, especially one that possibly converts from
> GL-foo to foo appropriate to program and feed an ASIC on a video card, is
> quite different matter entirely.
>
> I'm all for open source drivers, and would also encourage NVIDIA to continue
> to reconsider their closed source driver approach where it makes sense
> (especially for the network interfaces). However, I think that we shouldn't
> conflate these two cases rhetorically, as there are orders of magnitude
> complexity (and intellectual property) differences.
Furthermore, requesting needed changes to the kernel interfaces is
completely orthogonal to their documentation policies.
-Kip
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