[openbeos] Re: graphic drivers for Linux on Haiku.

> François Revol wrote:
> 
> 
> Just thought I'd throw out this point for the conversation: nVidia's 
> drivers don't actually use the DRI currently found in XFree86 
> (though, 
> as Francois says, not directly tied to XFree86).  nVidia's drivers 
> use 
> their own method of Direct Rendering, which would probably make 
> adapting 
> them for BeOS/Haiku even more complicated than porting the open 
> source 
> DRI drivers.

Yes caus they f3ar someone could steal their trade secrets (lol)...
so their 'open source' driver for linux is just a wrapper for a closed 
source library.

nvidia sux.

François.

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