Re: NVIDIA FreeBSD Kernel Feature Requests, interesting info for dfly?

["Martin P. Hellwig" <mhellwig@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dimitri Kovalov wrote:
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> You have it backwards. The reason BSD is all 'black boxes'
> is that it is not competitive or good in the video area.
> Apple can make it work because they sell the whole box and
> can control the hardware. But the open-source OSes don't
> have the resources to support video. It would be a good
> thing to have a model where vendors could easily take their
> windows drivers and make them work with BSD as a module.
> You know that vendors will make drivers for windows, so
> making it easy for them to port to your OS is good for
> everytone.
>
> Its time for open sourcers to realize they can't do
> everything themselves. I don't care if a driver is binary
> if it works. I want to have options.
>
> Dimitri

A binary driver on a system doing public services?
Not on my box! That's about the most important reasons why my windows 
servers are always in a DMZ and my OSS boxes are mostly not. But for 
anything else I'll say yes that would be convenient. However I lost the 
faith in manufactures creating good drivers, whether they are windows or 
anything else, but I guess that most manufacturers don't want to provide 
too much specs or source because then it's quite easy to see what a mess 
they sometimes make of their hardware.

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