Vendor support (was Re: The ati petition)

Vladimir Dergachev volodya at mindspring.com
Sun Sep 5 17:26:03 PDT 2004


>>> source drivers written from freely available docs?
>>
>> Yes
>
> OK.  Something like (in declining order of desirability)
>
> full source with free (speech) docs
> full source with NDA docs
> full source, no docs
> obfuscated source
> reverse engineered
> binary only
> nothing
>
> seems reasonable.  Did I miss anything?
>

I would move "reverse engineered" above "obfuscated source" as the former 
assumes existence of people without NDA who understand the driver code.

                         best

                           Vladimir Dergachev



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