>>> Ouch. When he says, "The driver remains completely functional in the >>> absense of the binary piece", surely some functionality is missing - >>> what is this? I don't understand enough (yet) to know from that post >> >> It means that you get basic access to the device w/o being able to >> take >> advantage of the more advanced features. Probably due to them >> subcontracting a third-party to do the advanced stuff. > > Anyone know what exactly the advanced stuff is?
Macrovision DRM amongst others. The Intel drivers also still need a binary BIOS for modesetting, at least on some chips. Segher -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
