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NDISwrapper dodges another bullet

NDISwrapper dodges another bullet

Posted Mar 6, 2008 16:22 UTC (Thu) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
In reply to: NDISwrapper dodges another bullet by rahvin
Parent article: NDISwrapper dodges another bullet

It's very different in that the binary blobs that NDISwrapper loads were written without
knowledge of the Linux kernel, and the binary blob that the nVidia shim code loads were
written using knowledge of the Linux kernel as reference. This is much the same difference as
that between writing an encyclopedia without having Britannica and writing one while using
Britannica. In the latter case, you have to be a lot more careful about a lot of things in
order to avoid doing things you shouldn't.


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