nvidia

[Ed Greshko]

Scott van Looy wrote:

> The point Les appears to be missing is that the binary blob doesn't stay
> the same because the cards it supports don't stay the same. And as
> NVidia upgrade their hardware, they'll slowly stop supporting the older
> hardware.

I'm not convinced that is a correct or valid statement.

I'm running a system with a TNT2 card from NVidia that I bought sometime in
2000 or 2001.  This hardware has not be produced in a long time.  The
drivers are still available and fixes are made in the "NVidia Legacy GPU
Channel".