Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751376AbWHLHcA (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Aug 2006 03:32:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751373AbWHLHcA (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Aug 2006 03:32:00 -0400 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:32392 "EHLO fmsmga101-1.fm.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751376AbWHLHb7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Aug 2006 03:31:59 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.08,116,1154934000"; d="asc'?scan'208"; a="115407061:sNHT379349229" Subject: Re: Announcing free software graphics drivers for Intel i965 chipset From: Keith Packard Reply-To: keith.packard@intel.com To: Nicholas Miell Cc: keith.packard@intel.com, Jeff Garzik , Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dirk Hohndel , Imad Sousou In-Reply-To: <1155190917.2349.4.camel@entropy> References: <1155151903.11104.112.camel@neko.keithp.com> <44DACD51.7080607@garzik.org> <1155190917.2349.4.camel@entropy> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-26u3OP6LieYcxtqe3sE9" Organization: Intel Corp Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 00:31:33 -0700 Message-Id: <1155367893.6386.179.camel@neko.keithp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1519 Lines: 42 --=-26u3OP6LieYcxtqe3sE9 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 23:21 -0700, Nicholas Miell wrote: > More importantly, where's the source to intel_hal.so? This module contains stuff which Intel can't publish in source form, like Macrovision register stuff and other trade secrets. It's optional, so if you don't want to use a binary module, you don't get to use code written by Intel agents for these features. And, we also haven't figured out how and when to release this binary blob, so there's no way you can use it today. The driver remains completely functional in the absense of the binary piece, and in fact has no reduction in functionality from previous driver releases. One important note -- the interface for the binary module exists only in user-mode code which is licensed under the MIT license, not the GPL. --=20 keith.packard@intel.com --=-26u3OP6LieYcxtqe3sE9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBE3YPVQp8BWwlsTdMRAlvfAKDXndAdbQoTHhiDX80r+d79RFJ59ACgwm37 bakkBa9PJKTnwPetADNtZbY= =FEuc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-26u3OP6LieYcxtqe3sE9-- - 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/