Blob and FreeBSD

2006-03-29 Thread Adam Stroud
I have been using both Open and Free BSD for a few years. Here is a Quick question about FreeBSD and the use of third party closed source binary drivers (known as blob to the OpenBSD community). I was just doing some reading on the OpenBSD website about their views on third closed source

Re: Blob and FreeBSD

2006-03-29 Thread Erik Norgaard
Adam Stroud wrote: I have been using both Open and Free BSD for a few years. Here is a Quick question about FreeBSD and the use of third party closed source binary drivers (known as blob to the OpenBSD community). I was just doing some reading on the OpenBSD website about their views on

Re: Blob and FreeBSD

2006-03-29 Thread Michael Hernandez
On Mar 29, 2006, at 9:45 AM, Adam Stroud wrote: I have been using both Open and Free BSD for a few years. Here is a Quick question about FreeBSD and the use of third party closed source binary drivers (known as blob to the OpenBSD community). I was just doing some reading on the OpenBSD

Re: Blob and FreeBSD

2006-03-29 Thread Adam Stroud
What about drivers that are not part of the ports collection? Nvidia I can understand because the code is not in the kernel to the best of my knowledge. If you want *the* nvidia driver, you install the port. What about drivers for something like raid controllers that would exist solely in

Re: Blob and FreeBSD

2006-03-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
Adam Stroud wrote: What about drivers that are not part of the ports collection? That generally implies that the drivers are under such a proprietary license term that the binary images cannot be redistributed:

Re: Blob and FreeBSD

2006-03-29 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 09:45:52AM -0500, Adam Stroud wrote: I have been using both Open and Free BSD for a few years. Here is a Quick question about FreeBSD and the use of third party closed source binary drivers (known as blob to the OpenBSD community). I was just doing some reading on

Re: Blob and FreeBSD

2006-03-29 Thread Michael Hernandez
On Mar 29, 2006, at 10:07 AM, Adam Stroud wrote: What about drivers that are not part of the ports collection? Nvidia I can understand because the code is not in the kernel to the best of my knowledge. If you want *the* nvidia driver, you install the port. What about drivers for