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Re:Nvidia PR Responds To Torvalds' Harsh Words by loxs on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @02:26PM (#4133357)
Well, maybe the ones that are installed in half of the world's smartphones?
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Re:Nvidia PR Responds To Torvalds' Harsh Words by jevinskie on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @03:07PM (#4133562)
I believe most of those are still supported with binary-only drivers.
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Re:Nvidia PR Responds To Torvalds' Harsh Words by hollerith on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @05:44PM (#4134317)
I'd be interested to know which Android devices are the exceptions to this general rule of binary-only video drivers.
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Re:Nvidia PR Responds To Torvalds' Harsh Words by Symmetry on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @08:26PM (#4135000)
I believe that ARM's Mali GPU is fairly open source friendly?
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Re:Nvidia PR Responds To Torvalds' Harsh Words by hollerith on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @09:45PM (#4135238)
Not as friendly as Intel recent GPUs on the desktop if the need to reverse engineer Mali is any indication:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_hardware_and_FOSS#ARM

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