From: Miles Lane <miles@megapathdsl.net>
To: Erik Elmore <lk@bigsexymo.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: NVIDIA kernel module
Date: 05 Dec 2001 15:38:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1007595520.16919.4.camel@stomata.megapathdsl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112051719260.13083-100000@erik.bigsexymo.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112051719260.13083-100000@erik.bigsexymo.com>
On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 15:22, Erik Elmore wrote:
> Have I lost my mind?
>
> I've always thought that NVIDIA's linux kernel support was incredibly
> closed source, but I swear I just saw a download link for the kernel
> module sources at http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux
>
> was I mistaken or is this something new?
I think the kernel stuff is mostly just hooks into the kernel.
There isn't any significant proprietary information in the
kernel patch, unless I'm much mistaken. The proprietary gold
is hidden in the driver.
Miles
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-05 23:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-05 23:22 Erik Elmore
2001-12-05 23:29 ` Jeffrey H. Ingber
2001-12-06 2:27 ` Erik Elmore
2001-12-05 23:38 ` Miles Lane [this message]
2001-12-05 23:39 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-12-06 15:10 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2001-12-06 15:19 ` Michael Kummer
2001-12-06 23:57 ` Stuart Young
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112051719260.13083-100000@erik.bigsexymo.co m>
2001-12-05 23:46 ` Stuart Young
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