Stupid fits, after all these years I can't see why their binary blob is still that particularly valuable but that is their judgement call. When Christian Zander was their Linux developer I used to get early and quick response patches directly and I could share them. The progress of nouveau has been great though I have not checked how close it is to a full replacement. Regards Sid. On 05/09/13 19:05, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
El 05/09/13 07:19, Basil Chupin escribió:
I am surprised that nVidia has the patience to put up with the constant moving of the goal posts - even while the game is in progress. Well. if NVIDIA wants to play this game, they have to be "patient" (as far as I am concerned they are "stupid" not "patient") they know about this, in fact it is clearly documented:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt
I know of one developer who gave up with keeping his application up-to-date because of the constant changes for which he had to make adjustments which would satisfy the various distributions. The app. k9copy hasn't been touched for 3 years now and if you want to make a backup copy of your favourite DVD, for example, you now need to go MS. Sad really. What you talk about here, on the other hand, has nothing to do with kernel drivers or the kernel to userspace interface .. at all.
k9copy is subject to the KDE/QT API/ABI rules, whatever they are.
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