Robert Noland writes: > > The alternative - which sounds seductive but may have its own > > issues - would be to fill the Nvidia requests and let them write and > > maintain the code. Again, worthy project (which might have > > collateral benefits). Again, a lot of work. And an even more > > esoteric skill-set. > > The features that Nvidia has requested are fairly reasonable and > could be used in the open source drivers as well. Question: would anything _other_ than graphics cards find these features useful? > But, even if/when we deliver those features, they may not be > MFC-able. Any ABI changes in either Xorg or our kernel, > generally will render the blob useless... That might be a path worth taking. A one time change, well conceived and executed, that goes along with a ".0" release should not be that disruptive. Robert "in my uninformed guesstimate" HuffReceived on Sun Mar 15 2009 - 17:58:48 UTC
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