Re: [cooker-amd64] Re: agpgart

[Gwenole Beauchesne]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Duncan wrote:

> Thus, it's not a good idea to build the open source version into the
> kernel as it can cause problems for those that want to run the nvidia
> closed source driver and have a card that works better when running the
> nvidia gart as well.  I'd reconsider building it in, and run it as a
> module instead, so it can be unloaded and the nvidia version loaded.

Sure, I understand. I noticed that a few weeks ago, but since I wanted the
kernel to be frozen, this glitch was not release critical since it does
not render the system unusable with default setup ("nv" works, otherwise
"fbdev" as a fallback).

> OTOH, if I had my druthers, Mandrake and any other decently supportive
> of open source distrib (I can imagine SCO would therefore be an
> exception <g>) would basically ignore the closed source drivers, period,
> leaving folks on their own with support from NVidia, if they wanted to
> support it, for running their closed source stuff.

Well, my personal opinion, is to ship full featured products which work
best by default for most users. So proprietary software or not, I include
what I can and do believe makes users experience the product better.

But your alternate reason can hold too. It depends on people views. ;-)

Bye,
Gwenole.