Who says, they've got to opensource their drivers? I think it could be a big help, if they would help us with implementing the apis their drivers are úsing, so that their closed-source drivers work fine.
Greets,
David Hinz
Alex Buell schrieb:
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Jonathan Andrews wrote:
What I'd really like to see are Hardware Manufacturers getting behind us. Realtek, nVIDIA, ATi, Intel, AMD, VIA, etc, could all be approached, and ask for collaboration on writing GPL Drivers (Although nVIDIA is notoriously skeptical about open-source)
Im sorry, snot came out of my nose laughing when I read this...... If you think ANY Manufacturer is going to back an open source windows clone when they wont even touch a FreeBSD, let alone a Liux then you are not living in the real world.
If you want pure GPL then it is best NOT to contact these people and ask, if by some miracle they sent you any data you would probably find that you are in breech of NDA if you use it.
Out of your list only VIA will give out data on request, and thats only data for devices that don't do multimedia.
One word: DRM. That's why the likes of NVidia won't give out information on how their devicess works.
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David Hinz