On Sunday 12 February 2006 22:03, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 18:52 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > This patch contains the following possible updates:
> > - let FORCEDETH no longer depend on EXPERIMENTAL
> > - remove the "Reverse Engineered" from the option text:
> > for the user it's important which hardware the driver supports, not
> > how it was developed
>
> Is this driver as stable as one that was developed with proper
> documentation? I prefer to know that something as elementary as a fast
> ethernet controller had to be reverse engineered so I can avoid
> supporting a vendor so hostile to Linux.
Although NVIDIA continue to maintain their own driver, I know forcedeth has
had contributions from at least a couple of NVIDIA employees. Also, I've
personally used the driver on nForce2, nForce3 and now nForce4 SLI boards and
it's rock solid.
Adrian's change is a good one, IMO.
--
Cheers,
Alistair.
'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.'
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
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