On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 22:11 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Frank Cox wrote: > > > > >> Except that the people > >> providing the binary do have a reason to care if it works. > > > > Until they decide that it's time to sell you another card and discontinue their > > binary blob for the model that you already have. > > In a reasonable OS, a binary blob that worked today would work again > tomorrow. > I have gone from Fedora 5 to 6 to 7 with the same nvidia blob. Occasionally the fix for bugs or security will no doubt affect memory allocation, driver argument processing, or the manner of input from peripheral devices, and this in turn may require some change in the binary driver to be consistant. However, this is not a fault of either OS or binary driver, but rather a failing of human nature, and one that I, as a programmer can tell you takes decades of experience to even minimize, forget about eliminating it, because the fault you don't know or recognize you cannot code to prevent. Regards, Les H
