> Closed source kernel drivers would not be allowed to run under new kernels? You'd need to ask a lawyer but a lot of us take the view that they are not anyway. > Does this mean that a new nvidia driver would not work anymore :( No. The statement is a position, not a decree from on high, and even if it was a decree from on high (which wouldn't occur) you could change the source to undo it ;) > I also understand that kernel developers would build drivers for companies if they asked, what about if a company died out, would that offer hold? If there is sufficient documentation to write a driver there are people who want to write drivers for stuff. It doesn't really matter whether the hardware is without a vendor or not. > Thank you for any answers provided (good or bad). The users need to be informed and then later find out that binary drivers would not be allowed, unless one builds a custom kernel? or does that matter here? Binary modules usually last only a few releases before changes in the kernel break them by accident anyway so I would assume that if a binary driver vendor goes under the clock is ticking. Alan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
