nv driver (was Re: 4K STACKS)

[Sam Varshavchik]

Matt Hansen writes:

> On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 01:40, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
>> Depending on the bug. We actually know a fair bit about how the chip works
>> but the 3D people I know would rather work with friendly vendors than 
>> reverse engineer Nvidia. For the 2D stuff Nvidia do indeed write and donate
>> drivers to XFree86/whoever
> 
> Hi Alan,
> 
> Will we ever see a 3D-capable "nv" driver instead of resorting to using
> the official "nvidia" driver from nVidia? Will this always be simply
> "no" while nVidia is closed-source or is there reverse engineering hope
> out there?

Only Nvidia will be able to answer this question for you.

Based on what I've seen, that is rather unlikely.


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