On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Christopher James Halse Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 01:25 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 03:51:53AM -0500, Martin Owens wrote: >> > Now if I understand correctly the -nvidia driver doesn't yet support KMS >> > right, so it's boot will actually be less attractive? >> >> The -nvidia driver does not support KMS. I do not know of any plans for >> -nvidia to support KMS. > > The last I remember of this, implementing KMS required symbols > explicitly exported as GPL, making it impossible for nvidia to implement > KMS in the closed driver. That's a memory from some time ago, but this > nvnews thread[1] both confirms the GPL symbols issue and suggests that > nvidia are considering whether to implement a work-alike solution.
I should note symbols exported explicitly with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() do not require your code to be GPL but just GPL-compatible. So using a permissive license should be OK and for nvidia that would buy them getting: 1) an upstream solution 2) solution to share wither other crap drivers for OSes which require closed drivers Luis -- Ubuntu-x mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-x
