Re: [RFC] Small PCI core patch

[Avi Kivity]

Jeff Garzik wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 06:14:56PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>  
>
> > You exaggerate. Windows drivers work well enough in Windows (or so I 
> > presume). One just has to implement the environment these drivers 
> > expect, very carefully.
> >    
>
> I exaggerate nothing -- we have real world experience with ndiswrapper
> and similar software, which is exactly the same model you proposed, is
> exactly the same model that has created all sorts of technical, legal,
> and political problems.
>  
I agree that the legal and political problems are real. I offered two 
solutions to the technical problems.

However the situation with video drivers is already bad, and 
deteriorating. I had to hunt on the Internet to get my recent (FC4) 
distro to support my low-end embedded video (via). In the future it 
looks like even that won't work.

> Dumb with a capital 'D'.
>  
I hope you have a better solution.
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