Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753510AbZGTTEF (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:04:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751451AbZGTTEF (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:04:05 -0400 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:50774 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750780AbZGTTEE (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:04:04 -0400 To: Thomas Hellstr?m Cc: DRI , Linux Kernel list Subject: Re: DRM drivers with closed source user-space: WAS [Patch 0/3] Resubmit VIA Chrome9 DRM via_chrome9 for upstream References: <4A647358.1040009@shipmail.org> <20090720140956.GB11781@centrinvest.ru> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:03:58 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20090720140956.GB11781@centrinvest.ru> (Andrey Panin's message of "Mon\, 20 Jul 2009 18\:09\:56 +0400") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 918 Lines: 20 "Andrey Panin" writes: > * Users are still on mercy of binary blob supplier. Will this blob run on arm ? > Or powerpc ? Or even x86_64 ? Will it be compatible with XOrg X.Y ? > Nobody knows that and there is no gain for users too. Actually there is a loss - users see the kernel (or partial) driver and think it's open source solution. Been there, it wasn't nice at start and even less nice when the thing chose not to work as advertised. This was (is?) also the case with NVidia graphics drivers, I know many people who purchased their cards thinking they are fully open-source (because their drivers had to be "compiled"). -- Krzysztof Halasa -- 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/