Graphics Driver Frameworks and Security

[Alan Coopersmith]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 08:28:56AM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> (BTW, someone should point out to Theo all the bugs & e-mail we're getting 
>> now
>>  about the ATI closed drivers not working on Xorg 7.1 because we chose to
>>  break the vendor binary drivers in this release.  Guess we've failed our
>>  lapdog role.)
> 
> The real problem is that X.org doesn't break the ABI often enough.  If
> you make sure the ABI breaks in every release they'll stop complaining
> real soon.

They'll stop complaining because they've gone back to Windows or MacOS, where
people aren't actively trying to break the drivers they use.   Breaking ABI
won't convince the vendors to open source their drivers, it'll just convince
them it's more expensive and less profitable for them to support Xorg, and
make them more likely to give up.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering