Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261361AbVDMPWi (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:22:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261364AbVDMPWi (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:22:38 -0400 Received: from zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.57]:46483 "EHLO zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261361AbVDMPWh (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:22:37 -0400 Message-ID: <425D3924.1070809@nortel.com> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 09:22:12 -0600 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lennart Sorensen CC: Lars Marowsky-Bree , Helge Hafting , John M Collins , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Exploit in 2.6 kernels References: <1113298455.16274.72.camel@caveman.xisl.com> <425BBDF9.9020903@ev-en.org> <1113318034.3105.46.camel@caveman.xisl.com> <20050412210857.GT11199@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <1113341579.3105.63.camel@caveman.xisl.com> <425CEAC2.1050306@aitel.hist.no> <20050413125921.GN17865@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20050413130646.GF32354@marowsky-bree.de> <20050413132308.GP17865@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <20050413132308.GP17865@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 720 Lines: 22 Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Graphics card companies don't realize they are hardware companies not > software companies and that it is hardware they make their money from? > Oh and they have too many lawyers? This has been mentioned before, but I'll say it again. Nvidia has intellectual property from *other companies* in their drivers/hardware. They are *not allowed* to make the specs public due to their agreements with those other companies. It's that simple. Chris - 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/