>> I never said it did.. I should have said: Binary only drivers encourage
>> poor drivers
> No it doesn't.
How about "Binary only drivers encourage redefinition of ``good''"?
I think it was ATI who announced that their new drivers gave a 50% speed
increase or so. Turned out that they did get that increase, but only
when running a benchmark, games and such mostly slowed down.
The way I see it, UDI could mean getting drivers for some hardware that
doesn't come with documentation, which is good, but it could also mean
that less hardware would come with documentation, which is really bad.
In all probability, it would mean less drivers for non-intel
architectures.
I think Linux should focus on providing a clean source level API for
drivers, making open source drivers as portable as possible. If
something like UDI is being supported, it should be as an architecture
independent VM.
~kzm
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