Re: Wayland And Nvidia Binary Blob Legal Issue.

2011-09-07 Thread Corbin Simpson
Specifically, KMS is a relatively-new API which nvidia has never used. They have done modesetting in the kernel, but they don't participate in Kernel Modesetting. This might seem confusing. Nomenclature's always tricky. ~ C. On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:11 AM, Stefanos A. wrote: > 2011/9/7 Steve St

Re: Wayland And Nvidia Binary Blob Legal Issue.

2011-09-07 Thread Stefanos A.
2011/9/7 Steve Starr > I am trying to figure out what the issue is with Nvidia supporting Wayland > for it's Binary Blob. > > From my understanding KMS symbols are GPL. NVidia can't legally use them. > but hasn't the Nvidia Binary Driver always used some form of KMS? > It is said they have alway

Wayland And Nvidia Binary Blob Legal Issue.

2011-09-06 Thread Steve Starr
I am trying to figure out what the issue is with Nvidia supporting Wayland for it's Binary Blob. >From my understanding KMS symbols are GPL. NVidia can't legally use them. but hasn't the Nvidia Binary Driver always used some form of KMS? Thanks Steven :) __