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From: "Dennis Freise" <Cataclysm@final-frontier.org>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: New ATI FireGL driver supports 2.6 kernel
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 01:07:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <002f01c3765e$0f125950$0419a8c0@firestarter.shnet.org> (raw)

>  > The ATI drivers are NOT binary-only!
> http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/agp/binary.shtml

Mhh, ATI seriously sucks. Really.

> Linking GPL code to binary .o files, and then disabling the
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") smells pretty fishy to me.

This whole situation stinks - ATI plays games with open source, using the
free parts to complement their own components and on the other hand prevent
implementation by kernel-developers... maybe there should be more talking
going on between hardware-manufacturers and linux-developers, because my
ATI-GraKa (9800 Pro) STILL does not work - not with 2.4.x, not with 2.6.x,
even with all the newest versions (problem not based on ATI drivers, but on
agpgart KT400 / AGP3 issues)
Since all compoments do work on W*nd*ws, I seriously wonder how much M$ pays
to ATI to prevent linux-driver development.

My apologies for being wrong about the bin-only-part...

Greetings,
Dennis



             reply	other threads:[~2003-09-08 23:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-08 23:07 Dennis Freise [this message]
2003-09-09  1:04 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-09  1:25   ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-09  8:51     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-09-09  6:25   ` Matias Alejo Garcia
2003-09-09  5:47     ` Brien B.
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-08 22:47 Dennis Freise
2003-09-08 22:54 ` Dave Jones
2003-09-09  1:02   ` Alan Cox
2003-09-09  7:50     ` Dave Jones
2003-09-09 13:24       ` Alan Cox
2003-09-09 17:41       ` Mika Liljeberg
2003-09-09 17:53         ` Dave Jones
2003-09-09 18:16           ` Mika Liljeberg
2003-09-09 21:00             ` Alan Cox
2003-09-08 18:05 Mika Liljeberg
2003-09-08 18:18 ` Stian Jordet
2003-09-08 18:27   ` Mika Liljeberg
2003-09-08 18:41   ` Dave Jones
2003-09-08 19:03     ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-09-08 19:55       ` Dave Jones

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