On 02 Sep 2002 13:38:55 -0400 Jef Spaleta <jspaleta@princeton.edu> wrote: # # This would imply that Redhat has the full NVIDIA driver source code # to recompile...they don't. NVIDIA does not release the full source # code...they give you a binary library and some source code # glue...when you recompile the nvidia_kernel source you are just # recompiling the glue around the library. NVIDIA would still have to # release a library compiled with the gcc 3.2 compiler. So Redhat # can't include a gcc 3.2 compiled binary until NVIDIA recompiles the # driver for gcc 3.2. And once NVIDIA does recompile for gcc 3.2...it # still probably not in Redhat's or the linux community's best # interest for Redhat to try to include code they can not support # themselves. If you need a proprietary driver...its not to hard to go # get it...but making Redhat include driver code they can't support or # fix isn't the way to do it. Bugs in the proprietary code will lead # to system instabilities and Redhat won't be able to make the # fixes...but there would be an expectation that Redhat is responsible # since the drivers came with Redhat. I would like to point out that even Microsoft will not support closed source drivers. In order for Microsoft to include the Nvidia driver in Windows, Microsoft required that Nvidia release the full source to the drivers to Microsoft. Of course, it was covered over NDA, so the code never left Microsoft's hands, but the point remains the same. No software vender can support/include something in good faith w/out having access to the source code. -- Jesse Keating j2Solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating _______________________________________________ Limbo-list mailing list Limbo-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/limbo-list