2009/12/10 Alan Cox <a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>: >> The big question is what we call ctxprogs: binary blobs that are >> clearly executable, running somewhere in the GPU. No-one seems >> to know, if those are copyrightable, or if they can be redistributed. >> In their current form, they have been recorded from the nvidia >> proprietary driver using mmiotrace, and copied verbatim for each >> card type. > > Don't suppose they binary match anything in the Nvidia driver so you can > simply tell people where to extract it ? >
There is a (actually multiple for different card generations) stub of the firmware visible in the binary, but it can't be used as-is, it has to be tailored to each card. Stephane ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
