intel_hal.so

[Daniel Stone]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 08:31:20PM -0400, Andrew Barr wrote:
> I recently discovered this nefarious intel_hal.so (a month plus late, I
> know). I'm not pleased with this, to say the least, but there is little
> me or anyone else can do. I think we (i965 owners and the community in
> general) are owed this, however: an all-inclusive list of what, exactly,
> is hidden away in that binary module. The only answer so far is
> "Macrovision and other trade secrets". I'm sorry, but that doesn't fly
> for me. What else is in there? I want to be able to make an informed
> decision as to whether or not I will use this module, whenever it
> becomes available. If it's just Macrovision, then I suppose that's at
> least irrelevant for me. Unfortunately, some of the replies from people
> on LKML who examined the code seem to indicate that it's not.

It's not difficult to find.

daniels at endtroducing:~/x/mesa/Mesa/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965% grep intel_hal *
[answer elided, I'm not doing your homework for you]
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