On 10/11/06, David H. Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/9/06, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 > > :-( > > I would guess, since he specifically mentions MacroVision, that it's all > that "protected media" stuff, AKA DRM. Maybe the part that would let an > Intel device authenticate itself as a "trusted" pathway?
Okay that makes sense - part of the "High-bandwith Digital Content Protection" stuff I suppose, based on my limited understanding of it from http://fuckbluray.com Not functionality I'm interested in, I suppose, as I'll just rip BlueRay discs to TheoraOGG to watch them anyway :-) > Well, you -did- say workstation, which generally signifies (to > me, at least) dual socket and ECC. Yes, ECC for sure, and dual socket or dualcore is fine. > The MSI Workstation board is definitely NOT > obsolete; I'd go with "not widely available in the UK yet". Okay, that's really what I wanted to hear! :-) > What spec are you looking for? That is to say, what level of machine? I'm basing my ideas of what I want mainly from http://cr.yp.to/hardware/build-20060107.html -- Regards, Dave -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
