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interests, because there is no expensive shoes feature the original
I guess I must fortunately admit I'm partially wrong about nvidia.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=nvidia_tegra_3d
They probably needed the review to release the kernel and mesa driver
parts. There is new UVD firmware (215 KiB for one chip, previously the
biggest file was 32 KiB) and updated RLC firmware, maybe the
availability of much more code will make reverse engineering easier.
DRM isn't their only
I hear AMD have been helpful in regards to BIOS though. [1] They've also
released useful GPU specs and taken part in the driver development, although
their firmware remains proprietary.
Intel has the only manufacturer supported GPU (firmware+driver) but their
wifi won't work.
nVidia
Intel is also the only manufacturer making their GPU drivers work
without a nonfree VBIOS (after the system is booted, although there is
work on a replacement for Coreboot). AMD machines with a mostly free
BIOS need a nonfree VBIOS for the KMS and xf86-video-ati drivers to work
without
Google working in coreboot for Chromebook:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTI3ODA
nVidia did release a free software (but obfuscated) 2d only driver called
nv a few years ago.
On one hand, its good that a company (Google) that is making decent hardware
(Chromebook Pixel) is supporting Coreboot. On the other, its a shame that the
major hardware providers are still Microsoft's slave and would piss off
Microsoft if they implemented it.
Does anybody know if this means a 100% free 3d driver will work? Apparently
this video acceleration has been a problem for the same reasons the driver
isn't in Trisquel (digital restrictions). What I'm curious is if the
open-source driver will now work without any non-free bits.
It appears not. The blurb Update: The code just arrived! links to a mailing
list post, which then links to the newest firmware which includes this
restriction: No reverse engineering, decompilation, or disassembly of this
Software is permitted.
That's too bad. If there were a company that were freedom friendly(like
ThinkPenguin) producing a graphics card that had reasonable specs and worked
without non-free firmware and drivers I think that a lot of people would buy
it, even if it were a somewhat inferior card. I know that someone
On 03/04/13 14:02, Chris wrote:
Does anybody know if this means a 100% free 3d driver will work?
I looked up UVD and found this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Video_Decoder
It doesn't sound like it, but I don't know too much about GPUs.
Someone posted the following in the comments of Slashdot, claiming it is the
license of this 'code:'
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REDISTRIBUTION: Permission is hereby granted, free of any license fees, to
any person obtaining a copy of this microcode (the Software), to
install, reproduce, copy and
It's not source code. It's firmware. This link:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2013-April/036766.html
contains a link to:
http://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/radeon_ucode/
which is ALL firmware. I recognize it because it could be built into the
kernel on Gentoo.
I don't think so either. However I don't know enough about whats holding
things back. If those non-free bits that exist are not critical or the legal
review has free'd up enough of the restrictions maybe it can be done. I'm
pretty sure the DRM was the reason given that we don't have a free
What does not make sense to me is why did they need to do a legal review to
release non-free code? They wouldn't be revealing anything secretive in
non-free code. In fact doesn't the non-free driver already support it? This
article doesn't really make much sense to me.
It sees like AMD can't support or release anything open source without
half-assing the thing.
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