On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 09:58:45AM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > 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. > > I should note symbols exported explicitly with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() do > not require your code to be GPL but just GPL-compatible.
I seem to recall a pretty detailed interview of the nvidia guys where they addressed this, on slashdot or phoronix or somewhere. IIRC there was a non-trivial development effort involved that was driving prioritization of this for them. Bryce -- Ubuntu-x mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-x
