Is the blob needed for the card to operate at all or e.g. just for 3D
accelerated operation? If it's absolutely necessary then I am surprised
that Fedora distributed it without it's copyright status being known. But
it's a step on the road to a fully open stack for NVidia cards so I think
the work you're doing is excellent.
Posted Dec 13, 2009 18:12 UTC (Sun) by koriakin (guest, #62470)
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The ctxprogs are needed to make any use out of PGRAPH, which is the card's acceleration engine. Without them, there's no acceleration, not even 2D, but normal display, KMS, and suspend/resume works just fine.