Nadav Horesh posted on Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:20:07 +0200 as excerpted: > Well, it is a good linux lesson, I'll may try, just for the sake of > improved boot speed. Does it goes well with the binary nvidia driver?
It should indeed improve boot speed. I don't do proprietary drivers (tho FWIW I don't worry so much about firmware, everybody draws the line somewhere, that's just where I draw mine) so don't know for sure on the nVidia driver, but AFAIK, as long as you don't disable module loading entirely, you're probably good. Note also that the GPL will let a user do what they want too, including compiling the nVidia drivers into the kernel itself, if you can figure out how (I believe it's doable, but I wouldn't know how...), as long as you don't distribute the resulting product. Of course, it's possible that wouldn't be legal from nVidia's side, I honestly don't know, but the GPL lets you do it from its side as a user as long as the nVidia side allows it as well -- you just can't legally distribute the result. If you were to do something like that, you could again turn off module loading entirely, if desired, and run with the nVidia driver compiled directly into the kernel. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
