Is the kernel really interested in code that could result in FUD? Think of the whole SCO case, where Microsoft unquestionable funded the law suites by buying Unix licenses at outrageous prices to harm Linux. Microsoft would use the FUD as a weapon against Linux, if such code got merged.
If questionable code is merged, uncertainty will not pay to the kernels benefit as a whole. There would be very good legal reasons for NOT using Linux, if such code is merged. Maybe it would be worth contacting nVidia. They might not even give a damn about the microcode. When open sourcing have come up, nVidia had this to say[0]: ------------- - For competitive reasons on other platforms, I don't think we would ever open source any of our cross-platform driver source code (which is 90%+ of the Linux driver... see my earlier description of code sharing). The Linux-specific pieces of the driver code base don't really stand on their own, and generally need to change in sync with the cross-platform code, so I don't believe it would be practical to just open source the Linux-specific pieces. - We have developed substantial IP in our graphics driver that we do not want to expose. - Unfortunately the vast majority of our documentation is created solely for internal distribution. While at some point it may be possible to release some of this information in pubic form it would be quite a monumental effort to go through the vast amounts of internal documents and repurpose them for external consumption. ----------------- So if someone could get in touch with Andy Ritger of nVidia and ask him if this also holds for the microcode. if: seek legal advice else: merge [0] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_qa_linux&num=3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
