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Hello folks, |
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the Nouveau project works on free/opensource drivers for the |
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NVidia graphics chips. |
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As NVidia continously refuses support to opensource community |
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and keeps necessary specs secret, we are forced reverse engineer |
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their binary-only drivers. This is an very complex and time- |
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consuming job. |
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The Nouveau project has developed an special sandbox for the |
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binary drivers, which us allows sniff it's communication with |
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the chip. Several test programs send specific commands to the |
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driver and record what's send to the chip. This way, spare CPU |
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time can be used for collecting important data - even for |
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non-hackers. |
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We like to ask all NV users to help us by regularily running |
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this testing system. |
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More information can be found on the project page: |
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* http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FrontPage |
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Please also consider signing the petition: |
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* http://www.petitiononline.com/nvfoss/ |
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cu |
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Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ |
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Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: |
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http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce |
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Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: |
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http://patches.metux.de/ |
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