Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Nov 2003 21:27:14 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: Announce: ndiswrapper |
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On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 03:49:05PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > I'm all for open specs, but in reality that doesn't always happen. > (out of interest, are there any OS 3d drivers for any current cards?) > I know what you mean, but I would find nvidia more at fault for not > providing power management than no OS drivers.
The rationales for closed specs are bogus, so I have zero sympathy. It's generally a braindead encoding for commands to carry out well- understood operations. There is nothing to hide, except, of course, the ability to use the hardware.
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