[gentoo-amd64] Re: cpu frequncy scaling module fail to load

[Duncan]

Nadav Horesh posted on Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:20:07 +0200 as excerpted:

> Well, it is a good linux lesson, I'll may try, just for the sake of
> improved boot speed. Does it goes well with the binary nvidia driver?

It should indeed improve boot speed.  I don't do proprietary drivers (tho 
FWIW I don't worry so much about firmware, everybody draws the line 
somewhere, that's just where I draw mine) so don't know for sure on the 
nVidia driver, but AFAIK, as long as you don't disable module loading 
entirely, you're probably good.  

Note also that the GPL will let a user do what they want too, including 
compiling the nVidia drivers into the kernel itself, if you can figure 
out how (I believe it's doable, but I wouldn't know how...), as long as 
you don't distribute the resulting product.  Of course, it's possible 
that wouldn't be legal from nVidia's side, I honestly don't know, but the 
GPL lets you do it from its side as a user as long as the nVidia side 
allows it as well -- you just can't legally distribute the result.  If 
you were to do something like that, you could again turn off module 
loading entirely, if desired, and run with the nVidia driver compiled 
directly into the kernel.

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