Re: NVIDIA kernel module

Miles Lane (miles@megapathdsl.net)
05 Dec 2001 15:38:39 -0800


On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 15:22, Erik Elmore wrote:
> Have I lost my mind?
>
> I've always thought that NVIDIA's linux kernel support was incredibly
> closed source, but I swear I just saw a download link for the kernel
> module sources at http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux
>
> was I mistaken or is this something new?

I think the kernel stuff is mostly just hooks into the kernel.
There isn't any significant proprietary information in the
kernel patch, unless I'm much mistaken. The proprietary gold
is hidden in the driver.

Miles

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