Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:56:38 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Small PCI core patch |
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On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 06:40:20PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > 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.
And given real world experience with "solutions" like this, they cause more problems than they solve.
> 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.
VIA is working with open source community. They are small enough (comparatively) that they need every advantage. VIA is one of the positive examples.
> >Dumb with a capital 'D'. > > > > > I hope you have a better solution.
Almost all of the solutions listed in this thread are better: Chinese wall rev-eng, funding, ...
Jeff
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