Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758341Ab0GBO4h (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jul 2010 10:56:37 -0400 Received: from mail-pw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:46886 "EHLO mail-pw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755996Ab0GBO4f (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jul 2010 10:56:35 -0400 Message-ID: <4C2DFFAB.30307@pathscale.com> Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:03:07 +0700 From: =?UTF-8?B?IkMuIEJlcmdzdHLDtm0i?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Xavier Bestel CC: =?UTF-8?B?IkMuIEJlcmdzdHLDtm0i?= , Dave Airlie , LKML , "" Subject: Re: Closed source userspace graphics drivers with an open source kernel component References: <20100702095815.GA6802@skynet.be> <20100702111029.GB6802@skynet.be> <4C2DD69E.6070509@pathscale.com> <1278081944.8257.263.camel@skunk> In-Reply-To: <1278081944.8257.263.camel@skunk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1162 Lines: 30 Xavier Bestel wrote: > On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 19:07 +0700, "C. Bergström" wrote: > >> Dave Airlie wrote: >> >>> What potential? there are maybe 6 players on the ARM graphics scene >>> >>> ... >>> Nvidia - well we know their position will never change. >>> >>> >> Never say never. I have every reason to believe that Nvidia would >> respond to market demand. >> > > Could you share those interesting reasons with us ? > I thought I stated that the main reason was market demand? (Some of my own comments not representing any company) By market I mean revenue... The Linux and FOSS world isn't exactly a huge market for high end graphics cards and total sales. With the Tesla series of cards and most HPC clusters behing Linux powered this has the potential to change things. Maybe I'm too optimistic and biased, but from my perspective I think there's a change in the winds coming.. -- 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/