Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [FC1], 2.6.8-rc2 kernel, new motherboard problems | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Sat, 24 Jul 2004 14:01:10 -0400 |
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On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 08:16, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > Gene Heskett schrieb: > > > On Saturday 24 July 2004 02:06, Lee Revell wrote:
> >>>>Wow, nVidia won't release the specs for a *10/100 ethernet > >>>>controller*? Having to reverse engineer a network driver is > >>>>ridiculous in this day and age. I can understand binary-only > >>>>graphics drivers, there is a lot of valuable IP in there, but > >>>>this is a freaking network card. What do they expect people to > >>>>do? > >>>> > >>>>Maybe some bad press would set them straight. > >>>> > >>>>Lee > > Could you please check the facts (or ask the driver authors) before > suggesting to haunt NVidia with bad press? Thanks. >
All the facts I needed to know were in the original post. You had to reverse engineer a network driver because Nvidia would not release specs. We should not be having to reverse engineer a 10/100 ethernet controller in 2004. The Linux community should make noise when vendors do this.
> > I'm under the impression the forcedeth writers did have access to this > > data. Is this incorrect? The question is directed at the forcedeth > > authors. If you are one, then please clarify. > > I am one of the authors. We did not have any information in the first > place, but now that our reverse engineered driver works well, NVidia > contributed bugfixes and gigabit support to our driver.
This is pretty shoddy on their part. Like I said, I can understand not wanting to release the specs for their GFX cards, but a freaking 10/100 ethernet controller is ridiculous.
Lee
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