On Dec 3, 2007 10:57 AM, Stewart, David C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, we're trying. :-) > > Sun has a great crew in Beijing working on the graphics drivers, and we > have a guy named Kan working with them who is relatively new on the > project. I don't believe we are taking the binary blob approach on > graphics because Intel graphics specs have been open for some > generations, so the drivers are all open source.
No, there is a binary blob component. The "main driver" portion is open source, certainly. But the video output stuff for macrovision, etc. is necessarily closed (see intel_hal.so): http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=115536806403908&w=2 -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
