[64studio-devel] Nvidia + JACK

Marcus Planet marcusplanet at gmail.com
Fri Mar 9 00:29:29 UTC 2007


On 3/8/07, Quentin Harley <qharley at wbs.co.za> wrote:
> Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
> > My suggestion is to ask NVidia to publish the source code of their
> > driver under an Open Source license.
> >
> I don't think we'll be the first to ask.  I also don't think they'll
> give in this time though.  Such a pity when hardware manufacturers hide
> their code.  Only they lose...
>
> But, let's ask anyway.  Who knows what may happen.
>
> Quentin


I also recommend reverse-engineering their drivers, their proprietary
blobs, in order to reduce the effectiveness of their secrecy.  This is
an area I would like to explore personally.

Marc



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