Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264273AbTKTF1Y (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 00:27:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264274AbTKTF1Y (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 00:27:24 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([199.26.172.102]:11180 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264273AbTKTF1W (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 00:27:22 -0500 Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 21:27:14 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Nick Piggin Cc: Neil Brown , Jeff Garzik , jt@hpl.hp.com, Linux kernel mailing list , Pontus Fuchs Subject: Re: Announce: ndiswrapper Message-ID: <20031120052714.GH19856@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Nick Piggin , Neil Brown , Jeff Garzik , jt@hpl.hp.com, Linux kernel mailing list , Pontus Fuchs References: <20031120031137.GA8465@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <3FBC3483.4060706@pobox.com> <20031120040034.GF19856@holomorphy.com> <3FBC402E.6070109@cyberone.com.au> <16316.17526.900850.239502@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> <3FBC47C1.6040209@cyberone.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FBC47C1.6040209@cyberone.com.au> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 812 Lines: 18 On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 03:49:05PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > I'm all for open specs, but in reality that doesn't always happen. > (out of interest, are there any OS 3d drivers for any current cards?) > I know what you mean, but I would find nvidia more at fault for not > providing power management than no OS drivers. The rationales for closed specs are bogus, so I have zero sympathy. It's generally a braindead encoding for commands to carry out well- understood operations. There is nothing to hide, except, of course, the ability to use the hardware. -- wli - 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/