On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 01:05:18PM +0200, Stefan Lucke wrote:
Actually there's not much closed source that affects the usage. On the PC side there's none, on the card side it's only the driver for the HDMI-chip in the kernel
Damm, that's the nvidia way.
They decide on which kernel it runs. If I need for some other device a different kernel which they don't / won't support, I'm left alone.
It does not affect the kernel of the host system, so don't overreact...
To my opinion that is a nogo way.
Your opinion... From the outside it's easy to say that everything must be open source...
As a small hardware manufacturer you have three possibilities:
1) Don't use a HDMI transmitter and ignore the market demand. 2) Use a HDMI transmitter, care about the NDA and deliver binary modules for controlling it. 3) Use a HDMI transmitter, publish the controlling code and pay a contract penalty of a few million $.