Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 11:25:15 -0500 From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@mac.com> To: Alexander Kabaev <ak03@gte.com> Cc: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: policy on GPL'd drivers? Message-ID: <5707162.1054052715194.JavaMail.leimy2k@mac.com>
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. > >Well, network driver is a special case as it is this weird binary >'kernel' + OS shim combination which is getting popular lately. Have you >thought about getting NVidia's permission to link non-GPLed shims with >their binary object? > I have thought about it... but don't know enough to pursue it at the moment. I am quite the amatuer... >A quick scan through NVidia audio driver sources suggests that the >device is very similar to Intel ICH2 AC'97-based cards. Should you see >is BSD-led ich.c driver can be reused instead of the Linux driver? >From the release notes: "the audio driver is based on the open source i810 audio driver but has been modified to work with NVIDIA hardware." I don't want to guess how much modification will be needed to make the nvidia one work. > >-- >Alexander Kabaev > >
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