Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Dec 1998 22:34:15 -0500 | From | Brian Gerst <> | Subject | Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux |
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Michael Dale Long wrote: > The binary only 3dfx.o module is quite popular with Linux users who own a > 3Dfx card. I suspect there are some other devices that are supported only > by binary only modules which are popular among their respective userbase, > regardless of how small that base might be. > > Allowing these to be dynamically loaded into the kernel non-GPL'ed is a > good thing IMHO. While free software is good, demanding GPL'ed drivers > from companies who are hesitant to release binary-only drivers is not > helpful to the parts Linux community who want support for that device.
The 3dfx.o module has source code... It's basically a module which mmap's the card's registers and provides a few ioctl's for Glide (binary-only, userspace) to use.
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Brian Gerst
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