On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 03:03 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > Newsflash: the userland abi&api is fix. There is nothing to whine > about. >
Yes. No one is trying to tell Nvidia & co "you must open your libGL implementation if you want your hardware supported". The way forward is, as Arjan van de Ven said on LKML, to "put their hot IP in userspace". Look at alsa-lib/alsa-driver for an example - the drivers only need to implement the minimum functionality to talk to the hardware, and most of the work is done by alsa-lib. Nvidia could do the same, they just need to ship an open source kernel component for their driver that allows their proprietary userspace libGL implementation to talk to the hardware. Lee ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
