-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Frank Barknecht escribió: > Hallo, > Gian Paolo Mureddu hat gesagt: // Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote: > >> I'm not sure if you've noticed, but the video card market is one heck >> of a vicious business, with not only rapid development cycles, but >> also a lot (and I mean a *LOT*) of cross licensed technology not to >> mention a billion-dollar industry. > > Note that NVidia is also not releasing specs (AFIAK) for their > mainboard chipsets. Onboard ethernet is not exactly superhightech. > > Ciao Actually, the nvnet driver is not present in the Linux "ForceWare" drivers for their mainboards. The reverse-entgineered forcedeth driver is much more efficient than that of Nvidia (which had to be built from source, by the way) consumes far less CPU and (in my case, anyway) reaches higher transfer rates. First hand experience with an nForce2 motherboard, revealed that I could reach full 100Mbps (and virtual no CPU usage) when transferring stuff to my file server where as I was able to go as high as 55-60Mbps with the nvnet driver (and over 30% CPU usage), so yeah, I'm 100% confident that the OpenSource drivers here at least are 200% better than the proprietary ones, to the point that the nvnet driver no longer is part of the "ForceWare", which is actually excellent! However for the video drivers, as was said in another post to this thread by Rob, nVidia and ATi are not releasing specs for their hardware for Open Source drivers due to incarnate battle over features, price and performance... I would have to assume that an Open Source driver initiative on at least the kernel end would be tremendously helpful to prevent lockups and ease debugging, not to mention that installing their binary X drivers would be much easier, after all the kernel module pretty much is only a bridge between the X driver and the hardware, the magic is done in the X driver, not the kernel gateway (or am I terribly wrong here?) Alas, I think that if either of the giant companies did fully open their drivers and specs, not only would they be doing the right thing?, but I believe it would be much easier to implement new capabilities to the cards. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEmYV3XM+XOp70dwoRAnA3AJ0W661IEoKO4PYTOwCb1mGfQZTzGACbBoSP fCnUIp35RzwGGlsJI5mt0Q0= =2u0V -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
