A Sun engineer on Linux [LWN.net]

A Sun engineer on Linux

Posted Sep 26, 2004 19:55 UTC (Sun) by mmarq (guest, #2332)
In reply to: A Sun engineer on Linux by khim
Parent article: A Sun engineer on Linux

On better look...

" Plus I've never seen new nvidia subriver for new piece of hardware compatible with old piece of main driver - so I can not see what are you talking about. "

Geez!... that wouldn't be asking for too much ??... but the answer might be yes anyway, if that new piece is from a family already present, and dosent need diferrent support of what is already present in the main driver... or...

... does that mean you know better... because you had the chance to look at the code of their unified driver!??... or what??(nvidea buddys ?)...

... but better than Linux kernel is exactly that they *appear* to be able to had support for a new chipset family, only with "some" changes to the main driver, and whitout having to change even a single line of code to the *majority* of the drivers modules(if we can call them that) *already present*.

...it was the example i gived, but it dosent *seem* not even near, an *ALL GO* for splitness much more than the Loadable kernel Module... its a commercial strategy,... defensive in nature because it loads an entire Nvidea environment, that prevents a correct comparison with offers from the competition,... and offensive in nature because if that environment happens to be better than the competition, it will create lock-ins.

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