linux-kernel - Re: BUG in free

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Date:	Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:48:43 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	Simon Arlott <simon@...e.lp0.eu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	akpm <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: BUG in free_block (tainted)

On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 00:49 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> Aww, apparently the fglrx driver creates tons of SLAB caches with
> really funky names for no good reason... Oh well, one more reason to
> stay away from that crap and help out the nouveau folks instead ;-).

fglrx is the AMD/ATI binary evilness - the open source efforts are the
radeon and radeonhd drivers. AMD/ATI are actually providing
documentation and paying developers to work on the drivers.

I'm not sure what the nvidia binary wonkyness is called, but its
respective open source effort is the nouveau - who must solely reply on
reverse engineering as nvidia isn't providing anything.

Anyway - your point still stands - binary stuff should not be used.

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