From: Dave A. <ai...@gm...> - 2009-12-10 22:04:12
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2009/12/11 Alan Cox <al...@lx...>: >> The big question is what we call ctxprogs: binary blobs that are >> clearly executable, running somewhere in the GPU. No-one seems >> to know, if those are copyrightable, or if they can be redistributed. >> In their current form, they have been recorded from the nvidia >> proprietary driver using mmiotrace, and copied verbatim for each >> card type. > > Don't suppose they binary match anything in the Nvidia driver so you can > simply tell people where to extract it ? In theory that would require a level of RE on the blob we aren't willing to do. But from what I think we know, there isn't a 1:1 binary between blob and what goes out in mmiotrace. Dave. |