Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:40:20 +0200 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Small PCI core patch |
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Jeff Garzik wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 06:14:56PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > > >>You exaggerate. Windows drivers work well enough in Windows (or so I >>presume). One just has to implement the environment these drivers >>expect, very carefully. >> >> > >I exaggerate nothing -- we have real world experience with ndiswrapper >and similar software, which is exactly the same model you proposed, is >exactly the same model that has created all sorts of technical, legal, >and political problems. > > I agree that the legal and political problems are real. I offered two solutions to the technical problems.
However the situation with video drivers is already bad, and deteriorating. I had to hunt on the Internet to get my recent (FC4) distro to support my low-end embedded video (via). In the future it looks like even that won't work.
>Dumb with a capital 'D'. > > I hope you have a better solution. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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