linux-kernel - Re: Gaming and the kernel

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Message-ID: <168124.1344053522@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Sat, 04 Aug 2012 00:12:02 -0400
From:	valdis.kletnieks@...edu
To:	Chris Jones <chrisjones@...n.net.au>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, david@...g.hm
Subject: Re: Gaming and the kernel

On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 10:51:49 +1000, Chris Jones said:

> documentation, hopefully things will work out. And this might actually
> be the kick in the rear-end that AMD and NVIDIA need to get into gear
> and start developer some useful and Windows equivalent hardware drivers
> for ALL their cards for Linux.

The truly ironic part is that the current NVidia binary blob driver that
everybody dislikes so much *IS* the "Windows equivalent" driver (in
fact, it's the same driver, with a Linux shim layer wrapped around it).

You can flame them for having a non-GPL binary blob, but you can't flame
NVidia for not having equivalent drivers...

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