Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263718AbTIHXIT (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 19:08:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263721AbTIHXIT (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 19:08:19 -0400 Received: from [80.190.232.4] ([80.190.232.4]:10937 "EHLO srv02.rooty.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263718AbTIHXIJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 19:08:09 -0400 Message-ID: <002f01c3765e$0f125950$0419a8c0@firestarter.shnet.org> From: "Dennis Freise" To: Subject: Re: New ATI FireGL driver supports 2.6 kernel Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 01:07:57 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Antivirus-Scanned: Clean X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: 0.0/5.0 This mail is probably spam. The original message has been attached along with this report, so you can recognize or block similar unwanted mail in future. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. Content preview: > > The ATI drivers are NOT binary-only! > http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/agp/binary.shtml Mhh, ATI seriously sucks. Really. > Linking GPL code to binary .o files, and then disabling the > MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") smells pretty fishy to me. [...] Content analysis details: (0.00 points, 5 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1169 Lines: 29 > > The ATI drivers are NOT binary-only! > http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/agp/binary.shtml Mhh, ATI seriously sucks. Really. > Linking GPL code to binary .o files, and then disabling the > MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") smells pretty fishy to me. This whole situation stinks - ATI plays games with open source, using the free parts to complement their own components and on the other hand prevent implementation by kernel-developers... maybe there should be more talking going on between hardware-manufacturers and linux-developers, because my ATI-GraKa (9800 Pro) STILL does not work - not with 2.4.x, not with 2.6.x, even with all the newest versions (problem not based on ATI drivers, but on agpgart KT400 / AGP3 issues) Since all compoments do work on W*nd*ws, I seriously wonder how much M$ pays to ATI to prevent linux-driver development. My apologies for being wrong about the bin-only-part... Greetings, Dennis - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/