Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Nov 2003 21:26:59 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: Announce: ndiswrapper |
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William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> And what good would it be to have an entire driver subsystem populated >> by binary-only drivers? That's not part of Linux, that's "welcome to >> nvidia hell" for that subsystem too, and not just graphics cards. >> I say we should go the precise opposite direction and take a hard line >> stance against binary drivers, lest we find there are none left we even >> have source to and are bombarded with unfixable bugreports.
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 12:25:10AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Who brought binary drivers into this? And when I have ever advocated > binary drivers? > ndiswrapper has one use IMHO (which was pointed out me in this > thread)... to assist in reverse engineering.
Hmm, maybe I've gotten the whole purpose of the thread wrong. =(
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