On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 03:47:01PM -0800, David Bronaugh wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 01:40:14 -0800 (PST) hyper bit
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Hello, you say that you doesn't get the Nvidia sourcecode, then look to
> > nvidia.com under download. this is a sourcecode.  why do you can't
> > build it in your DRI?
> > 
> > Bye
> 
> Because it's not at all complete.
> 
> It's merely an interface to the kernel from a binary object in the case
> of the kernel driver -- and don't forget, their glx differs too, and for
> THAT there is _no_ source code.

Also, they use their own libGL (which is completely incompatible with
Mesa), rather than just making a binary DRI module, even though IIRC the
DRI project bent over backwards to make it possible for nVidia to make a
binary-only DRI module anyway.

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