Re: Binary-only drivers considered harmful
- From: markhobley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Mark Hobley)
- Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 02:08:03 GMT
Darren Salt <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is a "what if" - what could happen if binary-only drivers are seen to be
> a good thing by the kernel developers. Do you value using Linux without any
> binary-only drivers? What if, one day, you find that you have to use a
> binary-only driver to be able to use some particular type of hardware
> (regardless of vendor) get Linux to work at all on $NEW_MACHINE?
I would not recommend using any binary only driver for any core component.
This is the reason that I do not recommend video cards with binary only
drivers and no technical reference information available.
I have seen on several instances binary video drivers not working with the
kernel version being used.
My brother had a popular Nvidia card, and the manufacturers driver did not work on
with his Kernel.
If I wanted to create a modified Kernel, it would be a real annoyance to have
reverse engineer a binary video card driver, in order to find out how to work
the video display.
Mark.
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